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Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage (www.theverge.com)
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Investigators pulled video from ‘residual data’ in Google’s systems — here’s how that was possible and what it means for your privacy.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Even local files still “exist” when you delete them. Usually the filesystem just marks those blocks as reusable since overwriting the data would take a lot longer.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Really with an SSD this makes extra sense. Not only would over writing the data immediately take some time but would also use up the limited write cycles faster.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Even with spinning disks all that extra write traffic isn’t exactly great.

Plus scrubbing floppies takes forever