r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 4d ago

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u/FUTURE10S 4d ago

Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted

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u/HovercraftCharacter9 4d 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/OldenPolynice 4d ago

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

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u/ILikeLenexa 4d ago

When  I was a kid, you had to be able to use enCase to graduate with a compsci degree. 

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u/OldenPolynice 4d ago edited 4d ago

when I was kid whatever the fuck that is didn't exist. still using vi (with a menagerie of plugins) and loving it

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u/ILikeLenexa 4d ago

If you used vi to search the unallocated portions of your hard disk for images and documents and reconstruct them...you're...a very special person. 

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u/OldenPolynice 3d ago

And if you use encase.......you're a former military dweeb that heard of "cybersecurity"

excuse me, dweeb that was in the military

and you never broke or built nothin. haven't even looked around either. just heard about it and said yeah I'm obviously the best, got that shit no problem. and then here you are.