Collaborate Disseminate
Imagine the following scenario: There exist all kinds of information on my SSD. Now I take away the SSD of my MacBook Pro, replace it, and reboot. I should have a MacBook that is on factory settings, right?
I am wondering if there is any w… Continue reading Can data be stored anywhere else on a MacBook besides the SSD?
I partially wiped my hard drive using the null-fill method through command prompt by
copying a 1 Gigabyte file filled with NULL over and over until I ran out of space.
After that I tried recovering files and what do you know, I got back th… Continue reading How do I destroy references to wiped files?
After my other post I’m looking over some other possibilities to do what I’m trying to do.
How To Recover End-To-End Encrypted Data After Losing Private Key?
If I save user data in server, in order to restore the data I should have the key… Continue reading How Can I Backup App Data In Android/iOS Devices?
I found my old android phone from ~2010 but I don’t remember the password.
How can I recover the photos from it?
Assuming a given SSD supports TRIM, and is on a physical bus that supports sending that command, and the connected computer is running an OS that is aware of TRIM:
If the drive is formatted, or has had its files erased, will the data be un… Continue reading Data recovery from TRIMmed SSDs
A HDD with OSx installed removed from mac and used DBAN to wipe it under a PC. Does all the data is lost even if we put it back on a mac machine ?
I have a company laptop where I had many of my personal files and pictures. Now, I’m leaving for a new opportunity and I need to give them back the machine. So I used DBAN to wipe the hard drive.
I’m a bit paranoid so I wiped the HDD many … Continue reading Recover data after multiple wipe
Back in 1990 [Benjamin Zotto] wrote – while in elementary school – a dog racing game called Wonderland 2. The BASIC source code and images for the game were stored on a single ProDOS formatted, soft-sectored 5.25″ floppy disk. …read more
Continue reading Reconstructing Data From A Corrupt Apple ][ Floppy Disk
This article on forensicfocus.com says the following about Deterministic Read After TRIM (emphasis mine):
As a result, the data returned by SSD drives supporting DRAT as opposed to DZAT can be all zeroes or other words of data, or it coul… Continue reading What’s the DRAT word of my SSD?
This article on thomas-krenn.com states:
Because an ATA trim will be performed by NTFS with Windows 7 or when formatting using Ext4 from mke2fs 1.41.10 or XFS from xfsprogs 3.1.0, the secure erase procedure is no longer necessary […].
… Continue reading Does formatting an SSD securely delete all data?