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I want to sell my iPhone but it has lots of personal data on it. Apple suggests to Erase All Content and Settings before selling an iPhone. Is this enough to reliably delete all data or will it be recoverable for a tech-savvy buyer?
Continue reading Will a buyer be able to restore my personal data from my iPhone? [duplicate]
In a scenario where a person wants to give away their device (magnetic disk included), leaving the disk usable for the receiver, how might that person go about destroying ALL data (except firmware) on the disk only via a digital medium? En… Continue reading Reliably destroy all information on magnetic disk through digital medium
I want to ask GitHub developers to add a feature whereby you can request, either for free or for a fee, that a repository is marked so that it can stay on GitHub forever (perhaps the licence needs to be specified for the code or data), so … Continue reading Owners making their own files (e.g. on GitHub) undeletable by themselves, for life [closed]
I am concerned with digital file loss in two scenarios:
you were clumsy and accidentally deleted it permanently
someone in your household, another family member, accessed your phone, and you don’t understand why, and deleted it (perhaps … Continue reading Service that keeps your files for you and never deletes them [closed]
I have a rooted phone I’m willing to sell, but I had Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on it and I am questioning whether filling the internal storage with null bytes using dd would be sufficient to prevent data recovery by possibl… Continue reading Is filling the internal storage of an Android device using `dd` sufficient for data removal?
I have a folder encrypted with fscrypt. If I unlock this folder and delete a file from it (as the folder is unlocked anyone can see the contents of the files), then after deletion I lock this folder again, what will happen to this deleted … Continue reading Deleting files from folder encrypted with fscrypt
I used a virtual machine (Windows host/Linux mint guest) to store some very sensitive and private data (it shouldn’t be uncovered by state-level actors). Today I decided to check how much deleted files can be recovered from my host system … Continue reading How can data from VirtualBox leak to the host and how to avoid it?
There is a binary named ‘Open’ that resides in my usr/bin folder that I cannot delete. I have tried sudo rm open and even tried sudo su and then rm open and I cannot override the permissions.
I have tried chmod and that does not work eithe… Continue reading Deleting a binary from the bin folder that attempts to open at startup in Mac Ventura 13.2.1 [migrated]
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Signal is armed with measures to instil a sense of privacy in users by preventing undisclosed screenshotting and screencasting message threads, and by enabling the sender to set their text, audio and video-based messages to disappe… Continue reading Signal — Can message previews of the messages you send be disabled in the chats’ list of your addressee?
I’m just wondering from a security stand point if a deleted file on an SSD with trim enabled can be recovered? I’ve did some research and it would seem it is impossible unless for some reason trim wasn’t called on the deleted file blocks.
… Continue reading Can a deleted file on an SSD with trim enabled be recovered? [duplicate]