Data Destruction: The Fun Way (Videos)

Last week we posted an entry asking “How Do You Delete Your Data?” Whether it resides on hard drives or disks, there are many ways of destroying your data. No matter what you call it — “wiping” or “deleting” or “destroying” — it is helpful to know how data is handled both in its creation and removal as well as the different techniques to not only wipe your data, but also retrieve data when your court case relies on it.

This week we’re covering the deletion aspect. We interviewed some true characters on their various methods of wiping or destroying their data and we recorded the results on video. We found these individuals and their techniques interesting, to say the least. You’ll probably be surprised which of these methods are actually effective in destroying data. We’ve embedded the YouTube videos and provided a link to another video source below each video in case YouTube is blocked on your computer.

In the upcoming weeks, New Jersey Legal will follow up these interviews with our recommendations for wiping data. For now, enjoy the video interviews below…

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New Jersey Legal Participates In New Jersey’s Oldest Civil Case

All of us at New Jersey Legal want to say congratulations to Brown & Connery for settling the oldest civil case in New Jersey and say thank you for trusting New Jersey Legal for the case’s document management and trial presentation services! While we would love to believe that it was simply the site of our trial equipment and presentation technology that forced the opposition to settle, we know that it was the expertise of Mike Vassalotti, Joe Carney, Pat Holston, Brian Faulk and everyone else at Brown & Connery that worked to settle this case from 1989.

We would also like to congratulate Judge Lifland for his part in getting the parties together to bring this case to resolution. Judge Lifland is a retired Federal Judge who was brought in as a Special Master for this case to finally see its day in court.

New Jersey Legal has been involved in this case for many years, starting out with document copying and scanning work and concluding with our trial consulting and trial presentation services.

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How Do You Delete Your Data?

Within the next week we’re going to be broadcasting a special on different techniques for truly getting rid of your data. There are many techniques, some of which are more effective than others. For now we want to know, “How do you wipe your data?”

What do you do with your hard drives, thumb drives, CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, etc when you’re done with them? What have you found works and doesn’t work? Do you have any interesting stories pertaining to data deletion?

Share your ideas, thoughts or stories in the comments below and keep an eye out for next week’s special!

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What’s inside your child’s cell phone? (Part 2)

A follow up to ‘Cell Phones for Children – A “Catch 22”?‘

Some of you may remember “Joe” from our last blog post and his experience with cell phone forensics. He bought his children cell phones and, due to changes in their behavior, he became nervous and started “snooping” into their phones when he could. Never finding anything stored on the phones led him to believe the data was being deleted for a reason – and not a good one. Joe hired New Jersey Legal for our cell phone forensics services and in the process discovered his children were involved with guns and sex.

This past Tuesday, Fox News reported on some Pennsylvania high school students that are being charged with child pornography — not because they’ve been involved with an underground kiddie porn ring, but instead because three girls between the ages of 14 and 15 took nude or semi-nude photos of themselves with their cell phones and sent the photos to three male classmates between the ages of 16 and 17.

Police say that high school officials found the pornographic photos when they confiscated the phone of a student who had broken school rules by using it during school hours. Police were brought in, leading to other phones being confiscated and other photos being found.

But imagine if they hadn’t. Imagine if this child hadn’t been using his phone during school that day. No one found out and the photos were still being taken and distributed. Could be your children, could be your neighbor’s child but you wouldn’t know because your children are hiding it from you.

I don’t think any parent wants to snoop on their children. In fact, maybe you shouldn’t. But you should at least make it clear to your children that you can — and will — snoop if you have any reason to. For New Jersey Legal to make an image of your child’s phone, all we need is about the time it’ll take your children to watch an episode of Family Guy. Once we have a forensic image of their cell phone we can find whatever there may be on there that they don’t want you to see. That’s a fact that you and your children need to know.

What do you think? Is it better to play it safe and check or is it better to simply hope they’re not doing anything you would disapprove of? Is it better to enforce regular “check-ups” on usage, or is it better to wait and see? Keep in mind that if any child porn is found on any household cell phone or computer, everyone who has used that computer is subject to investigation by the authorities. Whatever your opinion is, we look forward to hearing from you in the comments below!

For those of you who are either current customers or blog members, we do offer a free initial consultation for any concerns or questions you may have with cell phone forensics or computer forensics involving clients or family members. You can email us at answers@njlcblog.net. If it’s an emergency please call us at 856-910-0202.

And yes, “Sexting” is the most ridiculous word the media has made up so far this year.

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