Deep Recovery

the answer if very accesible.

formatting alone is not enough to make data un-recoverable and proffesionals who have the tools, the time and the money can recover frightening amounts.
 
MotherMayI said:
The police seized my computer in relation to graffiti offences, I assume they're looking for photographs etc.

My main question was about MSN tbh. They can find photos all day long for all I care.
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Yes they will be able to string a lot of things together; your accomplices will probably have their PC's seized to so they can insure they have a complete conversation.

If you are guilty of causing criminal damage, I hope you get the book thrown at you like the lads from Stockport last year.
 
you should be alright because the police are hardly going to invest serious money and time into this sort of crime, but this does depend on what you graffitied and what you actually "supposedly" wrote
 
kai said:
you should be alright because the police are hardly going to invest serious money and time into this sort of crime, but this does depend on what you graffitied and what you actually "supposedly" wrote
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Graffitists cause Millions of pounds worth of damage each year to a whole host of places. It's costs the police, courts, businesses and insurance company’s money so they will do a lot to deter it and secure a prosecution.
 
Yes police labs will be able to get the data back even after formatting and re using the drive.
As for MSN, unless you specifically turned on convo recording, there wont be any records of your messages.
 
MotherMayI said:
.. What? No.
The police gave me a rather novelty wake up call one morning.

Doing some research on google has basicly lead me to believe that unless I specify MSN to log, or download a logger of some sort (or there is one on my network) that the conversations will be lost. Assuming that there was no other kind of surveilance on my computer/keylogger/whatever else.

The prosecution is being paid for by the council, so it is being fast tracked and a private company employed to do the deep recovery - As I understand it anyway. No other computers from anybody else were seized, in fact no other arrests were made at all.
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what kind of graffiti was this that the police would raid your house?

and what the H... were you saying on MSN ?
 
Formatting the hard drive doesn't actually do anything except erase the partition table. The data is left intact.

The only time data is actually erased is when it is overwritten - but even then it needs to be overwritten about 20 times before high end forensics can no longer piece it together again.

If there was illegal materials on there, you're ******. Basically. They will almost certainly find it.
 
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