Memories of a Media Card

twistedmoney99 writes "Anyone who has upgraded their digital camera probably has a few older, incompatible media cards lying around — so why not post them on Ebay? Well, if you do, be sure to properly wipe them because the digital voyeurs are watching. Seth Fogie at InformIT.com purchased a bunch of used cards from Ebay and found recoverable data on most of them. Using the freely available PhotoRec application, he was able to extract pictures, movies, and more from apparently formatted cards. The picture is clear — wipe anything that can store digital data before getting rid of it."

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Re:Memory effect

[DigiShaman]

Sure. Write something incriminating to a hard drive, perform your procedure of choice then hand the drive off to your local neighborhood police data recovery lab. If you're in the neighborhood, hand one off to your local federal branch of investigators and have them give it a whirl.

Make sure your first phone call has access to a computer so they can let us know how it went.

Sure, I'll put my money where my mouth is. Question however... How do I PROVE to you and the rest of the Slashdot crowd that I didn't give the local police department (or FBI) a bogus drive that never had anything on it in the first place?

I'm sorry, but I don't have any way of publicly contesting this argument and still seem credible. And no offence, but even if I put forth the effort to satisfy your curiosity and yours alone (IE, can it be recovered, or is the data gone)...I feel my time would have been wasted. I'm sure if the tables were turned, you feel the same way.

Again, no offence to you...