Comments on: Santangelo vs the RIAA

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 02:04:21 +0000

also get a second hd just for downloading, storing temp files etc. Best bet if your hit throw away the hd and buy another. Also certainly use a router, preferably wireless. Also don’t forget about mac addresses.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:27:04 +0000

What I find most interesting are the recent TV ad’s regarding DSL and Cable modem access.

These TV ad’s make it sould like you can download music over the internet, which you can. However they make if sound like music downloads are provided for free with their service. The average person would assume for free/legally IMHO.

It’s like Winchester advertising that once you purchase one of their firearms people will just start handing over their money. This of course could be true depending on how you use their product. (Yes I’m reaching but you get the point)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:26:32 +0000

Here is another option. This one is simple for those who do not want to delete all data on their hard drive. It allows one to delete the files most likely to be used against you and then overwrites all sectors not allocated to files. Overwrites the stuff that already is deleted.
This is of course not quite as safe as the “secure” deletion of the entire harddrive, but every little bit helps.

1. Run the newest version or Ad-aware ( http://www.lavasoft.de )

2. Delete the MRU (registry entries containing the most recently used files) data.

3. In the Application Data folder go into Real and the RealOne Player directory. Delete cookies. Then go into history folder and select all object and delete them.

4. Open all browsers and delete cookies cache, and history

5. Clear out all the temporary folders of incriminating information.

6. Clear out know sharing folder and private folders with incriminating information or files. Research each program you regularly use and know where history, temporay files and anything that can cause you trouble is stored. Clear these out as well.

7. Check for thumbnail and favicon directories and clear them.

8. Empty recycle bin. (VERY IMPORTANT)

9. Now put a very large (at least several tens of megabytes) file on the root directory of the hard drive to be swept and call it filler .

10. Now create a batch file and call it wipe.bat
In this file put in following three lines

:start
type filler >> wiped
goto start

11. Go to the root directory and run wipe.bat

12. After there is no free space on the hard drive, terminate the batch job and delete the file called wiped .

13. Doing this will make softwafe forensic analysis quite a bit more difficult. It will cost a lot more money for the police agency to have the hard drive analyzed.

This is the simplelest, least expensive way that I know of to protect your ‘deleted’ data.

Cyberscan

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:14:43 +0000

That’s Ray Beckerman – I promise.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:26:15 +0000

Santangelo has become an inspriational figure to us much as Cindy Sheehan was when she camped outside of President W’s cowboy ranch in Texas. Here we have a mom standing up for what is right and who was initially dismissed and disregarded by those with hubris who wielded their power.

Thank you Beckerman and the law firm Beldock Levine & Hoffman for standing up for what is right.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:27:41 +0000

Maybe you guys need something like DBAN(http://dban.sourceforge.net/)or Acronis Drive Cleanser.Both product are designed to completely destroy the whole harddrive.

To destroy data in computer,the stupidest way is delete folder directly.The “deleting” function in operating system does not actually remove the data,it only remove “index” to it and thus deleted data are recoverable.The better way is to use “wiper” to overwrite data several times,however this is not completely secure since there might be hidden trace left in the harddrive(Virtual Memory,temporary files,cache……).The best way is to use the programmes I mentioned to destroy data and do it several times.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:11:47 +0000

but if so, you GO, boy! a whole lot of us are rooting for your side

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 05:30:03 +0000

They can’t just back out anymore. There is a pending motion to dismiss. They could only back out with a court order.

Best regards,
Ray Beckerman

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 05:29:47 +0000

They can’t just back out anymore. There is a pending motion to dismiss. They could only back out with a court order.

Best regards,
Ray Beckerman

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:36:23 +0000

RIAA will back out “as a gesture of goodwill” rather than lose a precident. Then they will continue suing the easiest and poorest targets they can find.