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Old August 16th, 2006 #21
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This hard drive business sounds like some kind of urban myth or at least an exaggeration. I mean come on, where does your computer store all that stuff after you clear the recycle bin? At most I can image that perhaps some fragments here or there are left over, but I strongly doubt that it is possible for them to find your entire 1000 page plan to do away with kikery or your collection of nigger snuff movies.

If there is something to it, could somebody please post a link?
All info is written in Zeros and Ones on sectors of your hard drive. When you delete something, only the table or "pointer" to that file is erased, which effectively makes that sector free for overwrite (actually, the first byte of the file name is removed also). The data is still there, until it's overwritten by your new porn download.

Just crack open your hard drive and look at the platter very closely through a magnifying glass. You'll see all those Zeros and Ones.
 
Old August 16th, 2006 #22
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All info is written in Zeros and Ones on sectors of your hard drive. When you delete something, only the table or "pointer" to that file is erased, which effectively makes that sector free for overwrite (actually, the first byte of the file name is removed also). The data is still there, until it's overwritten by your new porn download.
You have to do multiple overwrites , to really clear the old data . I think that the DOD require a minimum of 8 overwrites for classified data . Could have changed since I read that .
 
Old August 16th, 2006 #23
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All info is written in Zeros and Ones on sectors of your hard drive. When you delete something, only the table or "pointer" to that file is erased, which effectively makes that sector free for overwrite (actually, the first byte of the file name is removed also). The data is still there, until it's overwritten by your new porn download.
Thanks for the very good explanation, I just learned something. Now that I know that, its logical that a hard drive simply overwrites deleted data rather than immediately removing it, because it’s more efficient that way. I can now see how finding such files, which have not yet been overwritten could be quite easy for those who know how it’s done.
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Old August 16th, 2006 #24
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This is why one of the first things the pigs do is seize your computer. It's a virtual gold mine of evidence, specially if you are running windows.
 
Old August 21st, 2006 #25
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people should better use strong encryption software, rather than destroying their own hard drive.

Check out truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) or bestcrypt.
For surfing, use some anonymizer, such as Tor : http://tor.eff.org/
A linux live-cd (or full system) is not bad, but unless it has built-in encryption and securities, your ISP can keep the log of everything, and maybe use this as evidence in some countries.
 
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