If I got it correctly, unlike the software in the article - yours wasn't a malware that stealthily does something unbeknownst to the legitimate user, or somethi

If I got it correctly, unlike the software in the article - yours wasn't a malware that stealthily does something unbeknownst to the legitimate user, or something that even impacts the security measures user has set up. It was a genuine and honest data analysis tool, scanning the drive one already has full access to. Tools like yours (cracked/warez - even a $100 bar was impossible for a schoolkid in late '90s/early '00s Russia, not to say about $1K+ price points) and articles on filesystem internals had helped me to recover my own data from drive failures a couple of times. So, thank you. And I really believe that would've anyone taken a possession of my notes and inspected them with a magnifying glass - the problem would be anything (me leaving the notes, someone taking the notes, ...) but that someone made the glass.