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What I haven't seen in a superficial reading of this thread: Did the device really erase the data? A quick way to do this, nowadays, is to encrypt it and, upo
by MarkusWandel 5y ago
What I haven't seen in a superficial reading of this thread: Did the device really erase the data? A quick way to do this, nowadays, is to encrypt it and, upon reset, throw away the key.
If it's an old school quick format, some types of data can be recovered. A tool like "photorec" can scan the drive and recover pictures, MP3 files and so on, mind you without original metadata like file names and dates. May be better than a total loss.
- quenix 5y agoI might be wrong, but isn't the "encrypt everything & delete key" method -way- more difficult to recover from than an actual disk wipe? I mean, with a disk wipe, you can still try to recover some data using data forensics tools. If they key is done, you can have the best forensics team in the world, you can't decrypt the garbled data.