Why Destroying Your Smartphone is Harder Than You Think: From a Digital Forensics Lab
Submerged in salt water for hours? No problem. Run over by a car? That’s ok. Hit with a hammer? You’d be surprised. In all of these situations, what’s keeping your smartphone “alive” is only the [...]
Why Storing Images Only on Your Phone is a Bad Idea
Putting all your eggs in one basket has never been a good idea. So trusting the storage of all your photos, videos and music in one tiny piece of plastic and metal is setting yourself [...]
Fix my Flash Drive: 3 Troubleshooting Tips
We've all been there--It's twenty minutes before your thesis is due, you put the file on your flash drive to print it off at school, you put your flash drive in the USB port and...nothing; [...]
Warning: What Computer Techs Won’t Tell You about Data Recovery
Failure can be avoided by backing up to more than one place This advice has been offered for years, but not by computer techs that are interested in making serious money off digital photo recovery. [...]
4 Ways to Save Your iPhone After Dropping it in Water
There's nothing quite like the sinking feeling you get when you accidentally drop your iPhone in water. You never know if it will survive- and you don't even want to think about what your parents [...]
4 Ways to Destroy Your Flash Drive in 30 Seconds or Less
So you want to destroy a USB flash drive? Or perhaps you think you already have. Either way, there's something you need to know... Even if a USB flash drive is destroyed, the data on the flash drive [...]