Brain fart: no format option on a pen drive pop-up menu?

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/27/2011 01:33 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/26/2011 10:22 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 08/27/2011 12:24 PM, Tim wrote:
>>> To be pedantic, that's a complete misconception about what "formatting"
>>> means...
>> The other utterly funny thing is the very last paragraph.
>>
>> "Once the drive has been formatted, the files on it will have been
>> completely removed, so you can't get them back. It is possible that
>> special recovery software could retrieve the files, so formatting a disk
>> is not a completely secure way of wiping a disk."
>>
>> The writer has managed to contradict themselves in the space of 2
>> sentences.....
>>
> Yes and no.  The average user won't have either the specialized software 
> needed for forensic data recovery nor the skills that Timothy McGee and 
> Abby Sciutto have in the use of those programs.  Therefor, as far as the 
> average user is concerned, gone is gone.  However, people with the 
> appropriate programs and skills can sometimes get things back.  As it 
> happens, I know a man who used to earn his living doing exactly that, 
> although he retired a number of years ago.

That isn't what the author wrote. 

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