[LINK] Self-erasing flash drives destroy court evidence

[Steven Clark]

On 03/03/11 09:45, Roger Clarke wrote:
> At 9:55 +1100 3/3/11, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> Self-erasing flash drives destroy court evidence
>> 'Golden age' of forensics coming to close
>> By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
>> Posted in ID, 1st March 2011
>> The Register
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/01/self_destructing_flash_drives/
> ...
>> Data stored [in solid-state memory] is [able to be] permanently erased ...
> So, normal service is resumed.
>
> Recoverability of nominally deleted data was an incidental feature of 
> magnetic recording media, different from rocks, vellum (remember the 
> palimpsest!) and paper.
>
> The feature will fade away as magnetic media fades away.
>
> To co-opt one of the great advertising lines:
>
>         'What part of 'delete' don't you understand?'.
i predict that this will accelerate demands from certain interests for
'data retention' laws.

-- 
Steven R Clark