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No Thanks for the Memories

Date: January 8, 2001
Author: James Fallows
QUOTE:  It dates from the earliest days of personal computer operating systems....the report was invisibly turned into slag and randomly attached to other files, perhaps including those transmitted to god knows where....

ABSTRACT: No matter how "clean" you think your earsed disks and drives may be, there are 'ghosts' lurking in their inner shadows. The article discusses, as an example, "memory slag" data left behind by various Microsoft products.

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