Where Do Deleted Files Go?

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final song is "Midnight Sound" by Gareth Johnson / David O'Brien

What have we lost forever?

links to info about digital file deletion:

[madmanpecos]

“Where do deleted files go?”
*Eight minutes later*
“We surrender the fact that our species will eventually be DELETED from the universe”

[bubblecatanimation]

I clicked on this video to pass the time, not to have an existential crisis.

[fahimhasan]

I hope this channel don't ever get deleted

[jimbob]

I used to work in IT security for a large company and another method used to wipe data from drives was degaussing. This was where an electromagnetic pulse was used to demagnetise the hard drive or tape, effectively wiping the data. Even this wasn't considered completely secure however and was usually just the first stage of the destruction process, with the degaussed drives then being shredded anyway.

The disposal company we used could shred drives so the resulting scraps were only 2mm thick. This still doesn't technically mean that the data still couldn't be retrieved but even those enterprising people in Ghana would have a hard time extracting anything of value from those scraps.

Of course, the less sexy but more practical method of data security was just to have a strict policy of forbidding any data containing customer or payment information to be stored locally on employee PCs, drastically reducing the amount of physical storage equipment that actually held sensitive data. I'll get in contact with my former colleagues and let them know that the heat death of the universe is also an effective method of data security.

[livintolearn]

This man could sell trees to a forest.

[dayoki]

"i gotta delete my search history fast"

sun: gotcha bruh

[sukhilassoi]

Even after a decade of release, these videos still looks more informative than today's....

[YesOkayButWhy]

Michael, you madman. You had so many chances to end this video on a mindblowing note, but you just kept kickin' up more vibes.

[Hanzel]

Q: Where do deleted files go?

A: *The end of the universe is inevitable*

[woahitsstultus]

I wasn't prepared to have an existential crisis, I just wanted to know where deleted files go.

[tbxlvif]

I love how he gives us hope in "But we got to the moon" and then instantly takes it

[BajkonurBobby]

Such a good script. The twists and turns... and in the end it turns out we were going steadily forward the whole time.

[minheritance]

"dad where do deleted files go"
*_"...Our sun becomes a red giant and swallows the Earth whole"_*

[manreal]

Q: Where do deleted files go?
A: *When Stalin decided that Trosky was the enemy of the state, *

[duckertracker]

”Every time something happens, a little energy is lost” Energy doesn’t get lost at any point, it just changes its form according to the first law of thermodynamics.

[maartenvandermeulen]

Vsauce: Talking about what happens with deleted files
Also Vsauce minutes later: Talks about the heath death of the universe

[-tweeomoz-]

The kid who’s Minecraft world got erased needs to see this

[fort]

He went from "deleting files" to the sun exploding

[RandomAsianGuy]

This went from how to delete files to physics to the heat death to entropy to the secret to life and finnally michael asking rather philosophical questions. Early 2010s michael was wild.

[CallOfMurat_MontajlarnFedaisi]

no sponsors, no trend, no interruptions, no patreon listing, no "checkout my discord" or something...just pure knowledge and nothing to distract you from the point. I miss this era of Youtube