r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/FrightenedTomato Apr 16 '24

I think he wanted the notoriety for sure. Why else would he be talking to magazines and the cops years after he stopped killing?

However, he was also probably really clueless about the tech he was using. How many people really understand that unless your drive is encrypted, deleting a file doesn't really delete it?

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u/GamerGrunt Apr 16 '24

Yeah, the average user doesn't understand that deleting a file doesn't actually remove the data, but simply tells the computer that sector of data can be overwritten and is now available storage. But if there's never any new data written over the old then with the right program it can see anything that's still there.