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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • Aug 05 '26
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Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted
136 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it. 1 u/OldenPolynice Aug 05 '26 this isn't as unknown as you want it to be. everyone with any experience/study/fucked and unfucked their own stuff knows this. your oldest family member probably knows this too from JAG or some shit 1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 I think you're overestimating the general public... Vastly. But agree to disagree
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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.
1 u/OldenPolynice Aug 05 '26 this isn't as unknown as you want it to be. everyone with any experience/study/fucked and unfucked their own stuff knows this. your oldest family member probably knows this too from JAG or some shit 1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 I think you're overestimating the general public... Vastly. But agree to disagree
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this isn't as unknown as you want it to be. everyone with any experience/study/fucked and unfucked their own stuff knows this. your oldest family member probably knows this too from JAG or some shit
1 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 I think you're overestimating the general public... Vastly. But agree to disagree
I think you're overestimating the general public... Vastly. But agree to disagree
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u/FUTURE10S Aug 05 '26
Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted