07-25-2010, 06:05 PM | #12 |
Nomadic Tribesman
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Deletion just rewrites the first character of the file header. That's why the file can be recovered, until it's overwritten by new data. A "shredder" rewrites the file space to zeros or ones, thereby destroying the file contents.
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