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What happens to information?

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What happens to information?
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RE: What happens to information?
August 20, 2015 at 5:25 am
When you delete something from your computer it isn't instantly "deleted" per se.
The particular address space of the data just cannot be accessed.
When new data needs to be stored,it may or may not be stored in the previously deleted data's address space.
If the new data is stored in the old data's address space,the bits present previously is overwritten with the new data.

The deleted information doesn't exactly go somewhere neither does anything magical happen,it just gets replaced and erased.Forever.
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What happens to information?

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What happens to information? - by Excited Penguin - August 20, 2015 at 4:47 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Alex K - August 20, 2015 at 5:09 am
RE: What happens to information? - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 20, 2015 at 5:25 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Napoléon - August 20, 2015 at 5:35 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Grandizer - August 20, 2015 at 5:46 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Napoléon - August 20, 2015 at 5:58 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Grandizer - August 20, 2015 at 6:10 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Napoléon - August 20, 2015 at 6:12 am
RE: What happens to information? - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 20, 2015 at 6:56 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Excited Penguin - August 20, 2015 at 1:47 pm
RE: What happens to information? - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 20, 2015 at 5:14 pm
RE: What happens to information? - by Tiberius - August 28, 2015 at 1:04 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Napoléon - August 28, 2015 at 5:09 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Tartarus Sauce - August 28, 2015 at 11:18 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Aoi Magi - August 20, 2015 at 8:10 am
RE: What happens to information? - by vorlon13 - August 20, 2015 at 9:37 am
RE: What happens to information? - by dyresand - August 27, 2015 at 5:50 pm
RE: What happens to information? - by Tartarus Sauce - August 27, 2015 at 11:08 pm
RE: What happens to information? - by Excited Penguin - August 28, 2015 at 4:44 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Tiberius - August 28, 2015 at 11:47 am
RE: What happens to information? - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 28, 2015 at 11:55 am
RE: What happens to information? - by Tiberius - August 28, 2015 at 12:00 pm
RE: What happens to information? - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 28, 2015 at 12:03 pm

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