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Wietse presents lessons learned about persistence of information in file systems and in main memory of modern computers - how long information persists and why. The results are based on measurements of a variety of UNIX and Linux systems, with some results for Windows/XP, including how to recover encrypted files without knowing the key.
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Wietse Venema is a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson research center. After completing his Ph.D. in physics he changed career to computer science and never looked back. Wietse is known for his software such as the TCP Wrapper and the POSTFIX mail system. He co-authored the SATAN network scanner and the Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) for forensic analysis, as well as a book on Forensic Discovery. Wietse received awards from the System Administrator's Guild (SAGE) and from the Netherlands UNIX User Group (NLUUG). He served a two-year term as chair of the international Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).
