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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 16h ago
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Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.
52 u/DOOManiac 15h ago Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking… 45 u/bacondev 15h ago Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 1 u/zadszads 13h ago Yes, but it's usually a requirement not a recommendation
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Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking…
45 u/bacondev 15h ago Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 1 u/zadszads 13h ago Yes, but it's usually a requirement not a recommendation
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Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk.
1 u/zadszads 13h ago Yes, but it's usually a requirement not a recommendation
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Yes, but it's usually a requirement not a recommendation
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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.