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Originally Posted by Graham
That's true, but there are also tools I've seen advertised, or even given away on cover disks, which will over-write the deleted data repeatedly. Yes, it may still be possible even then to recover some or all of the information, but AIUI it's an expensive process and it wouldn't be financially viable to do it "on the off-chance".
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I agree it would be to expensive for a private company / individual to persue such extreem data recovery, but the Police already have these departments in their employ, so it costs them far less, if anything at all.
Besides, have you seen how much undercover investigations cost?
I watched a prog last night about car jackers..... there were loads of officers watching the thieves for MONTHS. They ended up being arrested by some uniform cops who happened to be in the right place @ the right time.
NOTE: I completely condone the spending of public money in the persuit of crime detection.