We are talking about Hillary. I bet she never changed a diaper, nor
did she administer that server. She had a geek on the payroll and I
bet that "server" was on several different machines over the years. I
am a junk collector and I am not still running the same hardware as I
was 3 years ago. If Hillary knows anything, it is how to destroy
evidence.
All you need to do is delete the files, then copy what you want to
keep to another machine and destroy the original.
I am not a tin hat wearing conspiracy follower, nor am I a computer
geek. I just watch the events unfold. Hillary has been very reluctant
to give up emails and/or the drives on the server that they were located
on. She has been dragging her feet on their releases for a long time.
She finally released what she was willing to release due to
the increasing pressure and, low and behold, a random sampling of 40
emails contained not just classified info but *Top Secret* info.
Now it will become a debate as to what the classification of that info
was at the time it was recorded on her server. To me, it matters not.
As Secretary of State Hillary had an obligation to both recognize and
ensure the security of anything related to national security that even
could remotely be considered classified.
Her actions follow a typical Clinton style of slowly leaking the truth
out in a manner that confuses the issue, causes disinterest and
otherwise swings the finger away from them with respect to any mistakes
or wrongdoing.
In real life, all you have to do to make "erased data" go away is to
keep your drives pretty full, even if it is just copies of your music
library. If there are no unused sectors, there is no ghost data.
Time is your friend. The more times you overwrite these spare sectors,
the less chance that anything could be recovered, even with the most
sophistocated attempts.