Comments on: Google Search History Used To Send Wireless Hacker To Prison http://searchengineland.com/google-search-history-used-to-send-wireless-hacker-to-prison-10111 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:28:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Martinez http://searchengineland.com/google-search-history-used-to-send-wireless-hacker-to-prison-10111/comment-page-1#comment-245 Michael Martinez Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:43:33 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-search-history-used-to-send-wireless-hacker-to-prison-10111.php#comment-245 I cannot comment on this specific case, but other court cases I have read about were supplied with information retrieved from the violators' own computers. Simply clearing your cache, cookies, and history doesn't completely eliminate the trail of places you have been to. I haven't looked at the way FireFox works, but I know that Internet Explorer (up through IE 6.0 -- have not looked at 7.0) maintains a secondary layer of browser cache files that, in some cases, are virtually impossible to remove without a disk wipe. That may simply be an unintended feature or perhaps there was some issue with the disk I examined and the files were corrupted. I cannot comment on this specific case, but other court cases I have read about were supplied with information retrieved from the violators’ own computers.

Simply clearing your cache, cookies, and history doesn’t completely eliminate the trail of places you have been to. I haven’t looked at the way FireFox works, but I know that Internet Explorer (up through IE 6.0 — have not looked at 7.0) maintains a secondary layer of browser cache files that, in some cases, are virtually impossible to remove without a disk wipe.

That may simply be an unintended feature or perhaps there was some issue with the disk I examined and the files were corrupted.

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