Exploits, Tools & Data Recovery · Course 5
Deleted vs Reset: Myths & Reality
What delete and reset really erase, and where your copies survive.
- 1What Delete Really Does12 min · Follow a deleted photo and a deleted message, and see what is left behind.
- 2Factory Reset & Crypto-Erase13 min · See why a modern factory reset leaves the old data unreadable for good.
- 3Where Copies Hide12 min · Map the clouds, computers, cards and other people's phones that keep copies.
- 4Selling or Recycling a Phone Safely13 min · Hand over an old phone the right way, and see where scary reset stories began.
- 5Challenge: The Phone Donation Drive15 min · Prepare donated phones and answer donors' worries about deleted data.
Hands-on
Do it on the simulated phone
Every lesson has a lab you can try in your browser, plus questions that earn points toward the Myth Buster badge.
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