On 10/07/2019, ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: > [1] Strictly by way of loose comparison: Just because unlinked and > fclose'd files may be well and truly gone from the disk by the time > you use foremost to search for them > <http://ports.su/security/foremost>, [that] doesn't mean that foremost's > ability to sometimes still recover what you want is useless either. > Post-unlink recovery-enabling features have their uses; one just > should rely on them working 100% of the time.
Argh! I of course meant to say, "one just SHOULDN'T rely on them working 100% of the time." Sorry about that.