tip for the day

[Stu]

Originally Posted by timwilky

She has simply run the media format on the camera. I guess this would leave the files behind if I had something that would read the flash card as if it were a disk. No I do not wish to get them. I will probably give her the card and tell her to destroy it.

I don't get it so she had deleted all the pictures and done a basic format of the card.
So how do you know there was anything incriminating on it?

Originally Posted by Stu

I don't get it so she had deleted all the pictures and done a basic format of the card.
So how do you know there was anything incriminating on it?

because she only did this after he returned the camera to her AND TOLD HER TO FORMAT IT... ie she returned the camera with all pictures still on card in first place.

Clear

Originally Posted by timwilky

For my own personal PC I use eraser. I am advised that it should stop those pesky feds snooping with 7 times overwrite etc.

Ah Windows... Once with pseudo random data is enough unless feds are willing to tie up millions in resources for a year to recover erased files and even the there are no guarantees that they'll get it. They have a better chance of breaking an encrypted drive.
Windows tends to spray bits of everything everywhere in a zillion files in the stupidest places and it is almost impossible to contain it all and Eraser won't touch a lot of it - that is where they'll bite you.
There are two choices with electronic devices. 1 - Don't do anything illegal or embarrassing with them, or... 2 - If you do, become damned good at hiding or disposing of the evidence.


Windows format (talking standard, not quick) does not overwrite the media with zeros. This can be verified with " hexdump -C /dev/sd<disk_letter> " in your favourite Linux distro (after formatting in Windows) or whatever Windows tool can directly access the media. All of the data is still there. Tools like Eraser or dd (Linux) are needed for zeroing media.


Tim, lots of fun can be had even if they did format the media.


EDIT: Whoops... didn't realise I was talking to an IT geek... my bad

[BanannaMan]

Originally Posted by MattCollins

Tim, lots of fun can be had even if they did format the media.

So Tim, Can Matt borrow your camera next?????