Nobody gave the affected USSS officers relief from their daily duties to go do this separate mission of culling their shit to find the handful of things which needed to be saved.
Never happens in the government. They just blast out instructions, and people are expected to “find time” to do this or that task.
They never go back and actually account for what sort of time might be required to perform “X” task and ensure that people are freed up from other tasks for sufficient time periods to comply.
So if they (DOJ/FBI) can get their hands on the physical phones won’t the texts be recoverable via forensics? It’s my understanding that unless the person resetting their phones takes extra (sophisticated) steps to securely wipe the data that even a “factory reset” phone will still have the old user’s data on it (though only a forensic expert would be able to recover the data). Hence the need for “7 pass” and “35 pass” wipes where the entire drive is overwritten repeatedly to truly erase the old data. Hope this is the case!
Um, phones aren’t spinny hard drives. You made a giant leap there when you went from rust-coated rotating disks and assumed phones with the solid state storage are the same thing.
Almost everything we know can be explained by incompetence, stupidity, longing for an authoritarian goverment, misplaced loyalty to Trump, power-hungriness, greed, or psychopathy. Except for one thing: that Kash Patel was a public defender.
And why aren’t we seeing “some recipient’s phone stuff”? If they are so disciplined that they held to talking to each other on their special phones how could they be so sloppy in not backing up one word?
FWIW, files systems, whether on rotating (disks) or solid-state (flash memory) media, operate in similar ways. With flash-based file systems, over-writing would still be necessary, though doing it once might be enough.
When you get a new phone, presumably you follow the instructions on the screen and transfer whatever it transfers and whatever it doesn’t gets lost.
For government users, they don’t have any transfer like that. They turn in old phone, get new phone, it’s not tied to a personal account like your android or iphone, so it’s a clean start. Only things that live in the cloud like e-mail and outlook contacts are there.
For skeptics, I’d encourage a FOIA on text messages during the transfer from Obama to Trump in 2016/2017, when presumably there was the same type of cyclical turnover. And I’d expect that to come up with the same gaps, that things like e-mails are still out there, but texts living on phones are long gone.
It seems strange to me that all digital records of those text messages can so easily be erased from existence. I understand that texts as a method of direct messaging is different from emails, but that every last record could be permanently wiped out seems strange. I’ve not studied the matter at all, so I guess it is possible, but it still seems strange.
Now the time has come ( Time )
There’s no place to run ( Time )
I might get burned up by the sun ( Time )
But I had my fun…
Time Has Come Today h/t Chambers Brothers, '67, summer of love, and i’m still glad to be alive…
No. Solid state drives can and do zero out an entire block in one command. So, no, you don’t have to serially overwrite everything to make sure it’s gone.
