its the same

and a burnt ballot cannot be recovered, a bleachbit hdd can

>bleachbit lmao

usually when you delete a file, the system just toggles it to be like... invisible, but its still there until that physical data segment gets overwritten which wont happen unless the entire drive fills up multiple times

@Pinks they mentioned bleachbit first lol

@Pinks nice pfp

you can just rewrite an entire drive with garbage data using command prompt in windows

Someone explain to me why you can't just command a drive to be erased by writing zero on every bit?

yes, thats how deletion works, bleachbit overwrites the files multiple times so that it is better concealed, but there are still traces of this having occured, such as a drive being all 1s or 0s, or being all random, not to mention that there are ways to still recover the data, at least partially even after 34 overwrites IIRC

Doesn't work that way.

Also you seem to think all zeroes would make it absent of data

A blank drive isn't all 0s

It's nothing

like i said, the only way to truly destroy data is incineration

It has no 1s or 0s

Without going full nerd, there’s plenty of evidence to prove a drive was wiped.

It would make it unreadable, though

again, it can be recovered, even if it is unreadable

No.

how?

That’s not correct.

get a drill press and drive large holes through the hard disc, then set it on fire, then put it into a 5000 pound metal press, then grind it into dust, then snort the dust and shit it out and flush the toilet several times

Or just use SSD’s. It’s 2020.

im not privvy to the details but data recovery services can do things like that

Considering there are companies that can still pull the data from a drive after it's been burned, water damaged, scratched the fuck out of

You give it a drive full of zeroes and it magically finds shit on there?

etc

nope

and i dont mean unreadable, but moreso its been wiped ot be all 0s

and yes

like i said

im not privvy to all the details but wiping a drive does not neccecarily erase the data

what if you melt the drive into completely liquid metal and then mix the metal into a deck plate for a boat

can they get the data then?

no

Okay, do you want to know why you can recover shit from a HDD almost always?

that would be akin to incineration

yes

if oyu know why thats doable then ya