You know... it’s likely the white hats have had the backups all along. If the DS did delete the files, I’m sure they would have taken care to wipe them cleanly from the storage/cache medium. Herein lies their dilemma.... what are they going to say? “You could NOT have recovered those files! We deleted them AND wiped them cleanly from ever being brought forth in any audit!” C.a.t.c.h.2.2.
You know... it’s likely the white hats have had the backups all along. If the DS did delete the files, I’m sure they would have taken care to wipe them cleanly from the storage/cache medium. Herein lies their dilemma.... what are they going to say? “You could NOT have recovered those files! We deleted them AND wiped them cleanly from ever being brought forth in any audit!” C.a.t.c.h.2.2.