Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

If a computer is used in a system, the data is stored and can be retrieved.

This story is making the rounds on the Internet…Tesla was involved in a crash lawsuit. Tesla said, “We don’t have any data.”

A hacker found the data in the car.

Put this down next to the one that says, “If it is on the Internet, others can and will see it.”

If it was on a computer, it is still there. Folks can read data from disk drives dug up from garbage dumps. We can read old data.

This includes the TSA nude body scanners whereby they claim the data is never stored. It is stored on the disk. But no one saved the file. It is stored on the disk. The operating system does that in the background so it can save the more-expensive random access memory (do we still call it that?). Then the operating system pulls the data back when needed. This is all in the background and helps the machine run efficiently.

If a computer is in the machine, the data is stored. Delete images from your smartphone. They are still there. Someone can read them. The data is stored.

Note: the correct title of this post is, “The Data Are Stored.”