How are law enforcement agencies able to retrieve data off of a device or sim etc. that has been erased/deleted, yet we cannot retrieve our own lost data? Isn’t the point of erasing something to completely erase it…
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Deleting something doesn’t remove it from your hard drive. It marks the space that it takes up “free space” and when something else needs the space it will overwrite it. It isn’t until that point where it’s over written that it’s actually gone.
As for retrieving your own lost data, you absolutely can if you have the right programs and know what you’re doing.
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