Not an expert, but I've heard people say that at the top level, the engineers are able to detect is things were altered or deleted. That it's very difficult to hide that kind of thing from these top national security type of people. But, I guess we'll find out.
They can, and I'm hoping that's what's meant by a "forensic" audit of the machines -- forensic data recovery is the retrieval of deleted digital files.
About the only way data can ever be truly, permanently deleted is via physical destruction of the hard drive -- and even then, the odds are it's already been uploaded and archived to cloud servers elsewhere.
Not an expert, but I've heard people say that at the top level, the engineers are able to detect is things were altered or deleted. That it's very difficult to hide that kind of thing from these top national security type of people. But, I guess we'll find out.
They can, and I'm hoping that's what's meant by a "forensic" audit of the machines -- forensic data recovery is the retrieval of deleted digital files.
About the only way data can ever be truly, permanently deleted is via physical destruction of the hard drive -- and even then, the odds are it's already been uploaded and archived to cloud servers elsewhere.