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Jeez, they had to use
Jeez, they had to use "forenic experts" to retrieve the data? Excuse me for not being worried about anybody in my household, or place of work, being able to find anything.I suspect you missed it, but Microsoft's statement says:
"Microsoft's main goal with InPrivate Browsing is to prevent other users of the same computer to gain access to the browsing history, the company said in an e-mail response. The feature isn't designed to protect a user's privacy from security experts and forensic researchers, the company said."
Thank you for point this
Thank you for point this out. Mr. Gaskins there are very few things I can't stand worse the people that over state their knowledge. Please do more research before posting anymore blogs. There is a major difference between a regular user of a work station or your home user then a forensic expert trained to find so called hidden files. Needless to say this does not lend well to your credibility.One Big Flaw
The biggest flaw I see is that the InPrivate browsing session stills stores cache data on the local machine -- that's a big oversight, even for a Beta product.As for the rest of it, who cares if a forensic expert can recover the data?