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  • kieron115@startrek.websitetoNews@lemmy.world•Tyler Robinson Left Note Vowing to 'Take Out Charlie Kirk': FBIEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for adding in some more clarity. I worked as a cyber security analyst for the DoD for quite a while (IAT II level stuff) so I know it can get a little esoteric if you aren’t in that world. But absolutely, they may have found an index/pointers but the data itself was already overwritten. Or hell they could have found a thumbnail image stored in a cache somewhere that was clear enough. I was just trying to help people understand how something could be both “destroyed” and recovered at the same time. Language can depend on perspective sometimes, and none of us can really know the answer just based on verbage in a report. Could be the person talking to the press didn’t have a clear understanding. Either way it will be interesting to see what, if anything, comes of it.

    Side note: since you brought up shredding, I thought I’d share the ridiculous process I had to go through when I was active duty. We had to use a crosscut shredder, dump it into a bucket of water to turn it into a slurry, let the slurry dry and then burn the remains lmao.

  • kieron115@startrek.websitetoNews@lemmy.world•Tyler Robinson Left Note Vowing to 'Take Out Charlie Kirk': FBIEnglish
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    2 months ago

    My guess would be that it was a note on some form of digital media. Say you make a document on your computer that you later delete. The data doesn’t actually get deleted, your computer just removes the location from it’s giant table of contents and marks the space “available to write”. Typically that information can still be retrieved using software tools until it is actually overwritten, and even then there are exceptions. So yes, it is entirely plausible for them to have forensic evidence of a note that someone attempted to destroy.

  • kieron115@startrek.websitetoTechnology@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    2 months ago

    I know this is sort of still doable with aliexpress kits, but I miss the days of being able to make “weird” builds. My first build was an Athlon XP-M 2500+. It was a mobile chip that was just a binned desktop chip. It used the same socket as desktop, had no IHS, and ran at a “lower voltage” thanks to the binning. Overclockers DREAM in back in like 2005.