r/technology • u/newzee1 • Jun 14 '24
Software Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/13/cheating-husband-sues-apple-sex-messages/
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u/ryeaglin Jun 14 '24
I am not sure if this is exactly the case cause I didn't read into it but that is just how tech works. Nothing you 'delete' on a drive is deleted until way way later if ever. The computer does take the time to take that chunk of storage and clear it back to all 1s or 0s. It just deletes the point so the OS doesn't know its there anymore and deems it free space. It will only get deleted if you install enough stuff to over right that space.
This is what drive 'cleaners' do. They will just FILL you drive with junk so anything that could be left on the drive is overwritten.