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Threats to Privacy in the Forensic Analysis of Database Systems

Summary: Investigates unintended data remnants in database systems—tables, logs, and indexes—and finds deleted data persists with little user control. Proposes transparency criteria and practical secure-deletion techniques to bound retention and hinder forensic analysis. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3842
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2007
Pagerank
6.7073366e-05
Overall Rank
3,846 | 73.25%
DOI
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6,021 Securing history: Privacy and accountability in database systems 2007 CIDR 5.2415551e-05
11,608 DF-Toolkit: Interacting with Low-Level Database Storage 2020 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,759 Database Forensic Analysis with DBCarver 2017 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
12,264 Building Disclosure Risk Aware Query Optimizers for Relational Databases 2010 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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44 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00071838587
3,776 Forensic Analysis of Database Tampering 2006 SIGMOD 6.7754215e-05
4,605 Tamper Detection in Audit Logs 2004 VLDB 6.0547644e-05
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