by Steve Burgess | Sep 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
The stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty. A few years ago, Debby Johnson, an attorney from a large firm based in Kansas City, contacted me about a relatively simple matter. I was to travel to offices in Sacramento...
by Steve Burgess | Sep 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
We get this question several times a week, so it’s not just you. And no, it doesn’t mean you’re crazy – even if your friends think so, and even if law enforcement won’t take your case. People’s computers and phones get hacked, every day. Why...
by Steve Burgess | Sep 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
There are normal things that happen to hard drives and individual, occasionally unusual things that clients have managed to do over the three decades we’ve been recovering data for them. The usual suspects: Dust, fur, heat, electrical spikes, bumps, loose...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
The stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty. It was a cold and rainy San Francisco afternoon. I sat sweating in the conference room of a gritty skyscraper downtown. The deposing lawyer across from me was standing up,...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Both computer forensics experts and data recovery technicians seek to recover deleted data. Data recovery is primarily interested in bringing back files, while computer forensics tends to dig deeper, looking not just for deleted documents, but also for metadata (data...
by Steve Burgess | Aug 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
The stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty. It was a grey October day, the kind of day when a guy likes to cozy up next to a bank of servers to keep warm, when the Teacher first called me. “They think I’m...
