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<blockquote data-quote="Marg's Man" data-source="post: 373298" data-attributes="member: 4085"><p>Just remember ANYTHING you write online anywhere, anywhen, is there forever. Even if they depose your computer but, for reasons nefarious or otherwise, you have deleted, erased, wiped the files it can usually be recovered by a sufficiently determined forensic analysis. What you see on the various CSI or NCIS TV shows is not too far from the truth of what can be done<em> if sufficient effort is made</em>. Where the differences between reality and the dramatic situation break down is whether it is worth the effort it takes to recover the data. </p><p></p><p>For example - back in the early days of computers a student of mine accidently deleted his entire PhD thesis and did not have a backup. I was able to recover nearly all of it for him because he had only emptied the Trash file. He had done a little damage because he was trying to recover the lost files himself before he asked for help and every write operation to the hard disk chipped away at his data a little more.</p><p></p><p>Once things go out into cyberspace there are servers that are backed up all the time which keep copies of all the traffic that goes through them. This post will be stored locally on my computer until I send it, then it will go through my ISP's servers plus an unknown (to me) number of others until it gets to the CD site servers when it will become available to anyone of you reading this. It will stored for a while on your computers until you decide to close the window. The fact that you even LOOKED at this post will be stored in your browser's history and in the history files of your ISP and CD's servers plus that of the servers it went through getting between you and them.</p><p></p><p>This is why you need to be careful about anything you say online. It is all there forever and recoverable but you can take heart. For pretty well anything except truly major crimes, it is just not worth the effort of recovering this information and the skills required to recover it are not readily available to most people. The malicious [insert epithet here] who wants to know if you cheated at Bingo last week won't be able to retrieve that juicy tidbit without hacking the privacy settings of your email account when you told your relative in outer Siberia about it in an email. Put it on Facebook [or similar] or worse still tweet it and the world can get it easily.</p><p></p><p>Marg's Man</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marg's Man, post: 373298, member: 4085"] Just remember ANYTHING you write online anywhere, anywhen, is there forever. Even if they depose your computer but, for reasons nefarious or otherwise, you have deleted, erased, wiped the files it can usually be recovered by a sufficiently determined forensic analysis. What you see on the various CSI or NCIS TV shows is not too far from the truth of what can be done[I] if sufficient effort is made[/I]. Where the differences between reality and the dramatic situation break down is whether it is worth the effort it takes to recover the data. For example - back in the early days of computers a student of mine accidently deleted his entire PhD thesis and did not have a backup. I was able to recover nearly all of it for him because he had only emptied the Trash file. He had done a little damage because he was trying to recover the lost files himself before he asked for help and every write operation to the hard disk chipped away at his data a little more. Once things go out into cyberspace there are servers that are backed up all the time which keep copies of all the traffic that goes through them. This post will be stored locally on my computer until I send it, then it will go through my ISP's servers plus an unknown (to me) number of others until it gets to the CD site servers when it will become available to anyone of you reading this. It will stored for a while on your computers until you decide to close the window. The fact that you even LOOKED at this post will be stored in your browser's history and in the history files of your ISP and CD's servers plus that of the servers it went through getting between you and them. This is why you need to be careful about anything you say online. It is all there forever and recoverable but you can take heart. For pretty well anything except truly major crimes, it is just not worth the effort of recovering this information and the skills required to recover it are not readily available to most people. The malicious [insert epithet here] who wants to know if you cheated at Bingo last week won't be able to retrieve that juicy tidbit without hacking the privacy settings of your email account when you told your relative in outer Siberia about it in an email. Put it on Facebook [or similar] or worse still tweet it and the world can get it easily. Marg's Man [/QUOTE]
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