You don't need to be an expert to 'undelete' files from your computer

[ck4829]

Yes, you can download free programs off the internet that do exactly that.

Pretty unfortunate that the public and apparently the media as well don't know that because when the White House said "Er... Uh... All those files got... accidentally deleted", the people responded with "OK, we'll buy that."

It might be too late now though, those deleted files don't last forever. The Bush Administration probably got an expert to 'overwrite' the areas those files were formerly in.

[rodeodance]

1. I don't think people necessarily bought into that excuse. They just added it

to the pile of lies from the WH.

[ben_meyers]

2. You don't need to be an expert to 'scrub' files from your computer

You can download free programs to do that also.
http://www.batchconverter.com/DriveScrubber-download-13267.shtml

[Az]

3. Government security is different than normal security

When you delete something in a Government setup the data is zeroed out. That is it is overwritten at the moment of deletion.

[BlackHawk706867]

4. Now that would be scary.... What happens if someone truly does...

make a mistake and deletes a file by accident? So your saying that the space that the data existed in is overwritten immediately? Wow... I can see problems with that!

ww

[Igel]

11. If it's true, then

they'd be in the same most users were in in the '80s. You delete you work, you do it again.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. How many mail servers do Rove's emails pass through on the

way to their victims??? I mean, they should still exist in some place and time.... at least one would hope so.

[Ellipsis]

8. yup.

:toast:

[IowaGuy]

9. ? - the government is using different OS's than us?

Windows; Linux; Unix (or some variant) - I think not. The only way to completely wipe sat off a hard disk is to intentionally do it with specialized software.

In any case re: the RNC e=mails - those had to have been relayed through so many servers on the Internet that would have had their data cached and then backed up; along with logs of the message being sent from and to, received, etc. that is is a virtual impossibility for these e-mails to be gone forever...they will pop up and dribble out sooner or later.

[Canuckistanian]

5. What a naive idea

The Republicans have sophisticated back-up systems and experts on-call to manage those systems.

No reputable organization would be without them. And yes, Republicans know this.

They know what they're doing.

And it was a conscious decision to "lose" that information. "Deleting" emails is no trivial task.

They're taunting us.

[Ellipsis]

7. You can always pop out the drive and replace it with a new one.

[spirit of wine]

10. There is always this method

It seems reliable

http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/45707/Dark_Deal_Destroy_All_Data.html

But it somehow seems like it wouldn't be the first time.