Alternative browsers and stupidity

Come on, this is absurd.

“Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited. They know the location of the IE browser cache, cookie files and history, and they know how to read those files. Also, popular forensics tools can help out.

But that story changes when it comes to alternative Web browsers such as Firefox and Opera. These programs use different structures, files and naming conventions for the data that investigators are after. And files are in a different location on the hard drive, which can cause trouble for examiners. Furthermore, forensics software may not support the Web browsers.”

What can I say?

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1 Response to “Alternative browsers and stupidity”


  1. 1 Kanzentai

    For the honest citizen it’s wise to choose other browsers over the traditional MSIE. But criminals should be kept in the dark! (Extreme, I know. Yet there is reason in it)

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