Title :
Scrubbing Stubborn Data: An Evaluation of Counter-Forensic Privacy Tools
Author :
Geiger, Matthew ; Cranor, Lorrie Faith
Author_Institution :
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Abstract :
An evaluation of six privacy tools highlights significant shortfalls in their methods and implementations. It also raises a question: how much privacy protection we can realistically expect given ever-changing environments and the tremendous resources required to test for both known and unknown threats?
Keywords :
data privacy; counter-forensic privacy tools; privacy protection; stubborn data; Computer security; Data privacy; Data security; Drives; Forensics; Hard disks; Protection; Software tools; Taxonomy; Testing; computer forensics; data scrubbing; peripheral devices; privacy;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2006.132
