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Forensics Tool Finds Headerless Encrypted Files 374

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:17PM from the sir-there's-an-anomaly-here dept.

gurps_npc writes "Forensics Innovations claims to have for sale a product that detects headerless encrypted files, such as TrueCrypt Dynamic files. It does not decrypt the file, just tells you that it is in fact an encrypted file. It works by detecting hidden patterns that don't exist in a random file. It does not mention steganography, but if their claim is true, it seems that it should be capable of detecting stenographic information as well."

Comment Re:just to preempt all of the obvious comments (Score 1) 857

by Noctrnl on Thursday November 13, 2008 @05:28PM (#25752949) Attached to: Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer

Generally I think your point is valid. However, I don't think so in thise case.

To me, the old saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me" applies here. If you really want to break this down, she wasn't scammed once. She was scammed several times... in the same way... by the same person. Honestly, I don't see how you can look at it and say she was completely blameless in the matter.

To use your anology:
If you leave that stack of 20 dollar bills, yes, it's my decision to steal them. However, if you do so every day for the next month, and every day I take them in the same way, are you not a little more than stupid at that point? Would you not be somewhat to blame for your own misfortune? Surely you don't think you can claim it was 100% my doing after it had happened over and over and over again.

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