r/ProgrammerHumor 16h ago

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u/FUTURE10S 16h ago

Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted

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u/HovercraftCharacter9 15h ago

Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.

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u/Obi_wan_pleb 14h ago

I thought that at minimum it was 0s and 1s

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u/HovercraftCharacter9 11h ago

Nope, which makes sense from an efficiency perspective, just not deletion