From: ccsccs7 (ccsccs7_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 17 2004 - 20:12:31 PDT
Yes, indeed. It was an interesting article. It tempts me to commit
crimes, just to see if they'd be able to get the info off my iBook. :-)
Here's a link to the article that was linked to from some Mac (or other)
site: http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/215
Len Cole wrote:
>I wish I could remember where I read it, but in an article about computer security and "cyber-cops" an FBI official was quoted as saying that their anti-cyber crime unit used OS X G5's for three reasons, robustness, relatively little virus threat and the ability to emulate [nearly] every micro OS being used.
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>…that of the three predominant micro OS's being used, … Mac's classic OS was the most difficult to extract deleted files from and gave FBI agents the most fits. And as far as getting info from encrypted files on an Apple, forget it. He also said that getting files from the Windows file systems was like reading an open book.…
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