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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
I'm no expert with these electronic boxes, that's for sure, but, as I understand it, "DELETE" simply eliminates the capability for you to see the document anymore. It does not physically remove it from the drive. The only way to guarantee that it is no longer on the drive is to fill the drive up fully with new material.
Supposedly, this is how the government nails people with things that they have supposedly "deleted".
Might it be possible for Bill to investigate this?  |
As I understand it, deleting it will simply leave the file there to be overwritten. It deletes the pointer but the file is still there till it gets overwritten. Also short of destroying the drive, if it is usable, you can read it. All depends on how bad you want the data. There was a show where they formatted the entire drive, wrote over it several times but still used somesort of electron microscope to view the surface of the disk and still can retrieve it.
I'm sure the FBI could restore the drive but they would need a more convincing reason