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How can data be recovered from your hard drive after it’s been deleted?
A person buys a stolen prototype gadget that was found in a bar and takes pictures and video of it. After publishing them on the Internet their house is raided and their computer equipment is confiscated.
Luckily for them, they erased all of the data regarding the gadget so they’re safe, right?
Right?
Not necessarily.
Today’s Question of the Week appeared on Superuser.com courtesy of Jerry when he asked how detectives in the Casey Anthony trial had recovered keyword searches for evidence that had been manually deleted from a computer.