The Lie Behind Your Delete Button
Deleted data has a way of sticking around—like a ghost in the machine. Learn how to wipe drives the right way, why encryption beats hope, and what to do before the quantum multiverse finds your files.
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How to Recover Data from a Water-Logged Phone
Has this ever happened to you? You’re walking along the channel in Round Lake Beach talking excitedly on your smart-phone with your girlfriend, when suddenly, plons! Your phone spontaneously decides today's a great day for a swim, leaps out of your hand and into the water? Stupid phone! Doesn't it know it can't swim?! So what do you do? You hire a professional scuba-diver, at $250/hour, to go down there, and get your errant phone! Even though it’s obviously going through some sort of identity crisis, thinking it’s a submersible rather than a phone. Maybe trying to make these things smarter wasn’t such a good idea…
Don’t Be a Yutz: Safeguard Your Business Data
What do you do when your project manager “loses” his laptop the night before his last day? Luckily, I didn’t have to deal with that mess—I was safely on the development side.