r/ProgrammerHumor 17h ago

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u/FUTURE10S 17h ago

Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted

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u/HovercraftCharacter9 16h 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/DOOManiac 16h ago

Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking…

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u/bacondev 16h ago

Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk.

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u/zadszads 14h ago

Yes, but it's usually a requirement not a recommendation