When an email is
deleted, some or all parts of it are still retrievable in Microsoft Windows.
The subject of much anger amongst users who value privacy and security,
including me. Even if an email is deleted properly, it can still be retrieved
using specialist software. Forensic and data recovery specialists are used by
large corporations, governments and law enforcement agencies to retrieve
valuable data lost by human error, physical disaster, or mechanical failure. So-called
deleted emails are not deleted. The pointer to the file's blocks on the hard
drive is added to the free-space list in the file directory, and this space,
''may'', eventually, be re-used for new files. Note the "eventually"
part: forensic tools can easily recover deleted files with little or no damage.
And you thought they were really gone. Nope.
http://mashable.com/2012/12/10/email-can-never-be-deleted/
I wonder how many people have been fired or jailed because of e-mails that they thought were permanently deleted and they weren’t. I have seen several criminal cases lately where someone’s e-mails and Google searches have been used against them in court. Be careful of what you email or search for because nothing really is ever deleted.
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