Data can be recovered from disks and solid state memory, even if it has been deleted and written over several times.
The DOD uses rewrite standards requiring up to 35 times of overwriting data, before it can be considered securely deleted and erased. This was a standard in effect about 20 years ago, so it's safe to assume that the forensic capability is even better today.
With the product Eraser, I believe 3 times overwriting (byte by byte) is the lowest setting. If 3 layers of data can be extrapolated from the storage device, then the max available would be 1500GB for a 500GB disk or solid state storage.
If the data has simply been deleted and overwritten with regular data, the the recoverability is much greater than 3 layers. The only really secure way to erase data is to melt the device down into liquid.
I don't know the Maxey fellow, but I'm willing to sit back and wait for the game to play out.
Some of what he is claiming to have recovered corresponds to the financial information that Rudy discovered on his trips to Europe regarding the laundering of our taxpayer multi-billions.
He has also said that the porn and pedo stuff is not the main evidence in the data. Democrats are not afraid of sex scandals, no matter how gruesome they might be.
“Computer repair people (technicians) are rarely aware of forensic techniques.”
This would explain the issue. I too will sit back and see what happens. In the mean time we should not discount Maxey.
Maxey would have to have THE ORIGINAL PHYSICAL drive and not a copy to do that level of recovery but
I would guess that every byte that was ever on any of hunters hard drives is safely tucked away and
spread across multiple mirrored RAID's with offline backups, deep in the bowls of the NSA.
Maybe he or someone else got a copy from them.
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