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I work at an electronics recycling facility and we were just presented with an offer from a client that would like to buy our used data tapes. Our problem is that we have never sanitized data tapes as we have only shredded th… Continue reading How to securely sanitize data tapes, and audit the results?
When an Android app deletes a calendar event in a local (offline / non-synced) calendar, does Android’s Calendar Storage (com.android.providers.calendar) actually delete the event or does it just flag the event as deleted?
The reason I as… Continue reading Are deleted offline calendar events in Android actually deleted?
I’ve always been curious. It may be a stupid question but what if you deleted a file then filled up the SSD or HDD. Could your deleted data be recovered or is it physically impossible? I know Windows when you delete, you are actually just … Continue reading Can a full SSD or HDD recover deleted data?
Is it good secure programming practice to overwrite sensitive data stored in a variable before it is deleted (or goes out of scope)? My thought is that it would prevent a hacker from being able to read any latent data in RAM due to data-r… Continue reading Would it be good secure programming practice to overwrite a "sensitive" variable before deleting it?
If I have an encrypted RAR file which will only open using a password, and I opened a file directly from within WinRAR by double clicking the file inside WinRAR, I assume that WinRAR will create a temporary version somewhere in the drive (… Continue reading Does WinRAR leave traces of temporarily extracted files?