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iPhone 3.0 search finds old e-mail
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<blockquote data-quote="MacTrooper" data-source="post: 863247" data-attributes="member: 88921"><p><strong>Interesting comments in that other discussion</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>One thing that is important to remember, with your iPhone, Mac, PC, etc., is that "deleting" doesn't really delete anything. That's why the US Gov, DOD, etc., have special programs that delete files and then overwrite the file locations multiple times to completely destroy unwanted information. </p><p></p><p>It wouldn't surprise me that data can still be found after being deleted, but that doesn't mean, as some voiced concern about above, that the data is "taking up space". When you delete those files on your computer, they are still there but the computer shows that space as free space and eventually something else you save to your computer overwrites that old data, bit by bit.</p><p></p><p>That's why I still have every PDA I've ever owned, every thumb drive, and every computer hard drive - all except the ones I've physically destroyed or wiped using the DOD algorithm. </p><p></p><p>The real glitch here is that the search feature apparently "sees" these ghost files, which your computer normally cannot do, at least not without having the snooping software that data thieves use to find data on your sold/traded/discarded IT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacTrooper, post: 863247, member: 88921"] [b]Interesting comments in that other discussion[/b] One thing that is important to remember, with your iPhone, Mac, PC, etc., is that "deleting" doesn't really delete anything. That's why the US Gov, DOD, etc., have special programs that delete files and then overwrite the file locations multiple times to completely destroy unwanted information. It wouldn't surprise me that data can still be found after being deleted, but that doesn't mean, as some voiced concern about above, that the data is "taking up space". When you delete those files on your computer, they are still there but the computer shows that space as free space and eventually something else you save to your computer overwrites that old data, bit by bit. That's why I still have every PDA I've ever owned, every thumb drive, and every computer hard drive - all except the ones I've physically destroyed or wiped using the DOD algorithm. The real glitch here is that the search feature apparently "sees" these ghost files, which your computer normally cannot do, at least not without having the snooping software that data thieves use to find data on your sold/traded/discarded IT. [/QUOTE]
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