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SSDs Cause Crisis For Digital Forensics
rifles only writes "Firmware built into many solid state drives (SSDs) to improve their storage efficiency could be making forensic analysis at a later date by police forces and intelligence agencies almost impossible to carry out to legally safe standards, Australian researchers have discovered. They found that SSDs start wiping themselves within minutes after a quick format (or a file delete or full format) and can even do so when disconnected from a PC and rigged up to a hardware blocker." So either SSDs are really hard to erase, or really hard to recover. I'm so confused.
Why the confusion, dear editor? This should be well understood.
If you want to recover, you can't. If you want to erase, you can't. It's Murphy's Law of Data Storage.
When Mindy the undergrad accidentally deletes her term paper and would be really REALLY grateful for a super smart and kinda cute geek to go in and recover the file with Backtrack... then you'll see the downside.
What? I reject your reality and substitute my own!
What wear levelling gives with one hand (performance and life) at the expense of the OS never knowing in which memory cell the data has -actually- been stored; making targeted deletion runreliable..
Ruh-roh, Raggy! It's runreliable!
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
Only a problem if the retard windows admin disabled the recycle bin because it interfered with his OCD.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
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Plaintiff's Attorney: "Sir, what are the chances of the drive automatically generating the exact sequence of bits required to form this email?"
Expert Witness: "Billions to one, certainly."
Defendant's Attorney: "And how many times will that this 2KB email fit on the drive?"
Expert Witness: "Well, it's a 2TB drive, so... about a billion, give or take."
Defendant's Attorney: "So, assuming the data on the drive is random, then it's safe to say there are at least two billion opportunities on this drive to produce this email?"
Expert Witness: "That's not what I meant..."
Defendant's Attorney: "Yes or no?"
Expert Witness: "Well, yes, but..."
Defendant's Attorney: "No further questions"
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