notes-sousveillance

Most photos taken with digicams can be undeleted

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by merc (115854) Alter Relationship <slashdot@upt.org> on Sunday November 16, @11:31PM (#25782315) Homepage

There has never been a time in my life when some person of supposed authority have made any attempt to force me to delete photographs from my digital camera. Perhaps I am just not taking photos of important things. But should that happen I might gleefully comply if I didn't want to make a big deal about it.

Many digital cameras use VFAT filesystems which means their contents can be recovered. The utility of my personal choice is photorec(1). The photorec utility runs quite well on Linux. Just use /bin/dd to make an image of the SCSI disk to your HDD, run photorec with the device file as the parameter.

Photorec is written by Christophe GRENIER (no, I am not he) and can be found at:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/