Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:07:50 +0100, Ian White wrote:

Browsers store history..a list of where you have been. Its this
that
has been used in evidence as much as actual downloaded material.

They also stotre cookies..a list of registered sites you have
registration for.

Amongst other things, some sites set cookies without you having to
register or do anything other than look at a page.

Of course, these may be deleted periodically if you are savvy.

Or better still, inspected and *then* deleted.

Then the unused areas of the disc overwritten by a suitable program
otherwise the information is still there in pristine condition. If
you want to get really paranoid you overwrite each sector several
times with a different pattern each time.


I was thinking more about checking for cookies that don't fit the
pattern of my own activities (which are of course completely innocent
:-) .

Aside from that, I don't exhibit anything more than normal paranoia
twitch



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Ian White