Posted on Jul 17, 2022
When it comes to data on your phone, deleting a text isn't the end of the story
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https://www.npr.org/2022/07/15/ [login to see] /secret-service-deleted-messages-january-6-is-that-data-really-gone
Texts and other electronic messages from the U.S. Secret Service have become a point a controversy after the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general told Congress that those records were deleted after his office had requested them. But can a text or other digital messages ever truly be erased from existence?
People delete text messages and other electronic messages for many reasons: to free up room on their device; to break contact after a sour conversation; and, from time to time, to wipe out a conversation, for one reason or another.
Texts and other electronic messages from the U.S. Secret Service have become a point a controversy after the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general told Congress that those records were deleted after his office had requested them. But can a text or other digital messages ever truly be erased from existence?
People delete text messages and other electronic messages for many reasons: to free up room on their device; to break contact after a sour conversation; and, from time to time, to wipe out a conversation, for one reason or another.
When it comes to data on your phone, deleting a text isn't the end of the story
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Cybersecurity
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Article addresses generic devices. Govt and commercial devices are usually running sw to encrypt and contain classified and or material non public info. Copy of message or email content is resident on SW deck and actions to destroy re restricted and never at the user level.Content might be protected under various government statutes
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