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Megaupload Legal Threats: Possible File Deletion On February 2, 2012

Federal prosecutors who accuse file-sharing site Megaupload of being a hotbed of digital piracy say the site's customer files, presumably including perfectly legal ones, may be deleted starting Thursday. . "It is our understanding that the hosting companies may begin deleting the contents of the servers beginning as early as February 2, 2012," U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride said in a letter filed in federal court. The letter, submitted Friday in the Eastern District of Virginia, says that government investigators have finished executing search warrants at centers where Megaupload and MegaVideo files are stored. The link for this article located at CNN is no longer available. . Court alerts indicate possible removal of Dropbox's content in light of copyright concerns. Keep updated.. Megaupload Data Deletion, Digital Piracy Risks, Cloud Storage Legal Issues. . Dave Wreski

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Effective Techniques for Secure File Deletion in Ubuntu

Deleting a file or reformatting a disk does not destroy your sensitive data. The data can easily be undeleted. That. The link for this article located at Ubuntugeek is no longer available. . The link for this article located at Ubuntugeek is no longer available.. deleting, reformatting, destroy, sensitive, easily. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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Free Data Scrubber Utility Available for Linux and Windows 2000 Users

Via has released a free, open source utility that renders deleted Linux, Win2k, and WinCE files "virtually unrecoverable," it says. The PadLock Tru-Delete utility is available as binary or source, and is intended to show off the random number generator in newer Via processors. . . .. Via has released a free, open source utility that renders deleted Linux, Win2k, and WinCE files "virtually unrecoverable," it says. The PadLock Tru-Delete utility is available as binary or source, and is intended to show off the random number generator in newer Via processors. Like the special Xine media player build released several weeks ago by Via, and the Zip Utility released yesterday, Tru-Delete is designed to show off the capabilities of Via hardware, and provide developers with coding examples that can be used in derivative works. The utility will run on x86 processors that do not have the PadLock RNG, but will run 50 percent slower and use more system resources, Via says. The link for this article located at LinuxDevices.com is no longer available. . Via has released a free, open source utility that renders deleted Linux, Win2k, and WinCE files 'vir. released, source, utility, renders, deleted, linux, win2k, wince, files. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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