Doug followed up his “Delete does not equal erase” post yesterday, with an email to me. This essentially said, “Pete, you have a Mac, could you do a quick post on how to do the same thing on your ‘Cult of Steve Jobs’ machine?”. I’m not going to reiterate the reasons for wanting to do […]
Delete does not equal erase
Delete does not mean erased when it comes to a hard drive or USB stick. While it’s a lot harder than they make it look on CSI and most forensic analysts probably wouldn’t make a second casting call, data that was believed to be deleted can be recovered by people you may not want to […]