You Can Be Prosecuted for Clearing Your Browser History
http://www.thenation.com/article/208593/you-can-be-prosecuted-clearing-your-browser-historyIn 2010 David Kernell, a University of Tennessee student, was convicted under Sarbanes-Oxley after he deleted digital records that showed he had obtained access to Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account. Using publicly available information, Kernell answered security questions that allowed him to reset Palin’s Yahoo password to “popcorn.” He downloaded information from Palin’s account, including photographs, and posted the new password online. He then deleted digital information that may have made it easier for federal investigators to find him. Like Matanov, he cleared the cache on his Internet browser. He also uninstalled Firefox, ran a disk defragmentation program to reorganize and clean up his hard drive, and deleted a series of images that he had downloaded from the account. For entering Palin’s e-mail, he was eventually convicted of misdemeanor unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and felony destruction of records under Sarbanes-Oxley. In January 2012, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit found that Kernell’s awareness of a potential investigation into his conduct was enough to uphold the felony charge.
At the time Kernell took steps to clean his computer, he does not appear to have known that there was any investigation into his conduct. Regardless, the government felt that they were entitled to that data, and the court agreed that Kernell was legally required to have preserved it.
Hanni Fakhoury, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says the feds’ broad interpretation of Sarbanes-Oxley in the digital age is part of a wider trend: federal agents’ feeling “entitled” to digital data.
Fakhoury compares the broad application of Sarbanes-Oxley in the digital realm to the federal government’s resistance to cellphone companies that want to sell encrypted phones that would prevent law enforcement from being able to access users’ data. When the new encrypted iPhone came out, FBI Director James Comey told reporters that he didn’t understand why companies would “market something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law.”
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And it is free, and easy, and likely would never cause me to go Oh CRAP! if I used it before thinking things through.
I was a system manager for HPs and Tandems and IBM mainframes a while back, and I know that with great powerful software utilities comes the opportunity to yell Oh F**!!!! and hope desperately that your backup is a good one. 
Personally, I love it, along with some other Linux commands.
And - if you asked my grandson if he would rather go to jail for clearing history or risk having someone else look at his browser history - the answer would be jail. 
police were investigating you is a crime? Who knew?
I also mount all temporary directories to a ram drive to conserve the number of writes to my ssd. Nothing is ever saved after a power cycle unless I specifically choose to save it.
