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[newlawgirl]

I am listening to some seminars for my continuing legal education and the presenters for the seminar I'm listening to now are discussing computer forensics. It's a very interesting (and scary) topic. One case the lawyers discussed involved an employee who had written an incriminating letter. He had apparently written it at home and taken it to work on a flash drive. At work, he spell checked the document and printed it out. I think he must've then saved the document to his flash drive again--I don't think he saved it to his work computer. However, the computer forensics people were able to recover the document on his work computer because he spell-checked the document! The attorney said that if something appears on your screen, you should assume it's somewhere on your computer. Yikes! Just thought I'd pass that along in case anyone has ever taken stuff from home and printed it out at work.