The MAN
Friday, September 5th, 2003 (5 years, 4 months ago)
Follow me carefully, this post actually goes somewhere: The government has technology that can physically lift off information that has been on your hard drive disk. A lot of people know by now that when you delete something through your recycle bin, it can easily be recovered because it’s not actually deleted off of your hard drive, just moved (basically).
So new software was created to delete files and attempt to get rid of all traces of ever having those files on your computer. It attempts to overwrite the data of that file many times— maybe 10, 20, or even 30 times. Even after 30 or more overwrites, the government can physically lift off bits of information.
So let’s say you take it to the next level and attempt to physically damage your disk. There are reports (and I’ve heard about a documentary on the Discovery channel about it) where the government has been able to retrieve data from hard drives that were underwater, burned, hammered, ripped, etc.
Obviously, the MAN is quite powerful. So why does it take weeks for me to receive my damn mail! Why isn’t the MAIL MAN as powerful?! Think about THAT.
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