This week on FTL: Recovering encrypted files.

There were various accounts on how the military tried to delete as much information as possible about Sergeant Bales from the Internet, at least partly to protect his family. A lot of it was recovered anyway. On Files That Last I look at this from a digital preservation perspective. I talk about the use of Google caches, the Wayback Machine, and a ( Read more... )

Another Tuesday, another post.

An organization which I don't name almost lost its wiki due to having left its management in the hands of just one person. Did it save the wiki from a lonely cyberdeath? Did it have to reconstruct all its old information with chisels and toothpicks? Read on to find out.

Why iPhoto is the enemy of preservation.

This week's post is "Interchange formats." You need these to get files from one application to another. Whatever their qualities may be, you need them to work right now.

New on Files That Last: "Tied to an Application." How to avoid losing all your stuff when an important application doesn't work any more. Brought to you by the every-three-years ConCertino songbook.

Today I'm throwing down a challenge to the digital preservation monastery.

Your digital legacy

On Sunday, February 19, I’ll be on a panel at Boskone 49 on “Digital Estate - Virtual Property OR On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re Dead.” The other panelists will be security guru Bruce Schneier and technology writer Daniel Dern. This post is, in part, research and practice for the panel.

This week I tackle the messy subject of video preservation. This one took a bit of research.

Kindle: A Bookcase Built on Quicksand." The problem with DRM.