Time to disable browser history altogether? Is storing things like that on a ramdisk considered destroying evidence when you power down? Part of David Kernell

Time to disable browser history altogether? Is storing things like that on a ramdisk considered destroying evidence when you power down? Part of David Kernell's charge was defragmenting his hard drive! Seems a stretch since it's a legitimate maintenance task, or was more commonly useful in 2008. Hopefully they gave a decent argument that it was done with intent, and didn't just bamboozle the jury. Considering that every second a computer is on, it's potentially losing forensic data, I guess they just want you to call the police immediately after doing anything on your computer that may have been illegal. But it's not self-incrimination! It's also interesting that in that case, they caught a break in the form of malware that happened to log Kernell's activity.[1] It was "designed to collect a lot of different data (including) banking and finance data" -- but somehow I have a feeling they didn't lift a finger to prosecute that crime. Maybe they would if it embarrassed a Presidential candidate. [1] http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/fbi-kernell-tried-to-destroy-proof-of-e-mail http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/fbi-kernell-tried-to...