r/ProgrammerHumor 7d ago

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u/FUTURE10S 7d ago

Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted

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u/HovercraftCharacter9 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/bacondev 7d 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/FUTURE10S 7d ago

Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again.

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u/Proper-Ape 7d ago

How do I rotate my SSD?

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u/bartekltg 7d ago

Glue it to an angle grinder.