Lunch date with an old friend today, who’d borrowed a spare external hard drive a few months back and wanted to return it:
Friend: Anyways, thanks for letting me keep it so long. Oh, and there’s some porn on there.
TD: Um… are you in it?
Friend: No, I think I deleted all of those.
TD: Ah. So the stuff on here… ?
Friend: Oh, I just liked it and I thought you might, too.
I love my friends.
Oh that’s just mean. Giving you porn, but telling you she deleted all the stuff of her.
Do a search for encase forensic software
It is out there on the torrents It will *find* all images, no matter how long ago they were deleted. Can even piece together minor overwriting
HTRN -
Already been there, done that
nosmo -
I’m pretty good at file recovery, but it wouldn’t be terribly cool of me to do that in this case. The drive’s gonna get a zero-wipe and reformat.