A primer on the uncertainty of deleting files.

I was just responding to another post in here regarding how to delete a file securely and I thought perhaps others might benefit from what I explained there. There is a great amount of well intentioned but inaccurate or incorrect advice regarding deleting files, and it is clear that many do not understand what’s really going on under the hood when retrieving, creating or deleting files. Since this is r/security I thought it might be useful to explain things from …

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