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Fumo computer aide: Vince wanted all e-messages 'wiped'
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:43:37 -0600 (CST)
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20090114_Fumo_computer_aide__Vince_wanted_all_e-messages__wiped_.html By MICHAEL HINKELMAN Philadelphia Daily News Jan. 14, 2009 A one-time computer aide for Vince Fumo testified yesterday at the former state senator's federal corruption trial that Fumo had directed him to "wipe" all the BlackBerries in Fumo's Harrisburg office after a January 2004 newspaper article reported that the FBI was investigating Fumo. Mark C. Eister, a bespectacled computer geek, calmly told the jury that he had been away taking training lessons on computer security at the time. "After you go back from the training, did you do the wipes?" asked Assistant U.S. Attorney John Pease. "Yes, yes, I do recall going around the office and doing wipes," Eister said. Wiping involves using software to erase traces of deleted files, including e-mails, from computers or hand-held devices. [...] _______________________________________________ Please help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.html
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