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Old 11-17-2014, 08:56 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Kraftwerk View Post
From what I've been reading, with a flash drive information does not actually get deleted but is still there (only it's not visible, unless you you a program).

So doing a factory reset does not actually permanently delete content.
I seriously doubt anyone intends to do forensic analysis of your Kindle.

And, I am pretty sure the WiFi password is in the hidden system partition, which would require jailbreaking and probably imaging the system drive, so you can do something like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/file_recovery and pray to the G-d of your choice that the block location has not in the meantime been overwritten.


That's right -- in the natural use of a filesystem, the block location of deleted files gets recycled, because otherwise there'd be little point of deleting them.

Restoring deleted files is potluck, there are companies making a living off forensic data recovery.
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