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Old 16th April 2016 | 10:24
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Tone
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Computer security

Here's one for the experts
You have some files on a secure flash drive
You plug the drive into a computer (not yours)
You unlock the flash drive
You view / change on of the files on the flash drive
You save it back to the flash drive
You unplug the flash drive and walk off into the sunset

What do you leave behind? Will the computer have left an unwanted copy of the file lurking somewhere? This question came about because I loaded a file from a Kingston secure USB drive and found that I was able to carry on editing the file with the drive removed - does this mean a copy was on the PC somewhere? If so - does it get securely trashed when closed?
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