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Popular Mechanics Assembles Shredded Documents

Shred Reckoning Popular Mechanics shows how easily shredder output can be de-Humpty-Dumptied Shredder ShowdownPublished in the August 2005 issue.Go to original article The rise of Internet scams such asphishingand nowpharming(see POPULAR MECHANICS, August 2005, page 24) has given identity thieves the luxury of working from home, but a great deal of stolen information still comes […]

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Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident

By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer Extracted from Yahoo News May 9th , 2008 Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell

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Boulder Physicist Draws Attention From CSI: Miami

Taken from www.cbs4denver.com February 5, 2008 Reporting: Shaun Boyd BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) ― A physicist in Boulder has created a crime fighting device for the FBI that’s even caught the attention of producers at the hit CBS show CSI: Miami. David Pappas of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invented the first forensic

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Destroying Information is Company’s Specialty

Duluth News TribunePublished Monday, January 21, 2008By PETER PASSIe-mail at ppassi@duluthnews.com Digital Data Destruction Services Inc. — also known as D3 — specializes in rendering its clients’ data completely irretrievable. Crates of CD-ROMs, hard drives, DVDs, flash drives and magnetic tape meet their end each day in Iron River. Digital Data Destruction Services Inc. —

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IRS sent taxpayer data on unencrypted tapes

By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer 14 Jan 2008 | SearchStorage.com Go to Original Article Another security breach: IRS sent taxpayer data on unencrypted tapes Despite all the high-profile incidents in the past two years of lost backup tapes and other security breaches, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was exposing personal information on unencrypted tapes

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