• DocumentCode
    769048
  • Title

    Scrubbing Stubborn Data: An Evaluation of Counter-Forensic Privacy Tools

  • Author

    Geiger, Matthew ; Cranor, Lorrie Faith

  • Author_Institution
    Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    16
  • Lastpage
    25
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2006.132
  • Filename
    1704777