Outsmarting Scammers: Tips to Recognise and Avoid Their Tricks

[starborn]

Ah, here’s my semi-coherent rambling:

"Be Gone, Thought!" - Technomancy Spell to Stop Worrying

Yep. Basically, when you delete a file, it removes the connection or link to it in its system. But the file doesn’t really disappear until the computer happens to use that space to write something new. An analogy might be… It removes your address from the phonebook, so no one can find you. But it only bulldozes the home incidentally when it builds a new home. (In reality, it’s slightly more difficult, because technically a file isn’t a single home, but closer to a bunch of homes spread out acr…