Jedediah over to you, Jedediah thanks Joe Republicans, are demanding answers, as after dozen of phones from the special counsels office were quote, accidentally wiped over handing them over to the inspector general. How does this even happen, and is it really just that easy to delete your data here to explain the Kurt the Cyberguy? I hear this story come on accidentally, wiped clean, be real about this Jedediah good morning. To you here is the thing to think about. You have a report done December of two thousand and eight by the Department of Justice that explains what happen: toed phones, Peter Strzoks phone missing months upon months of data. The findings of this is kind of incredible. The data on that phone went with had giant gap simply because the FBIS own gathering inside is flawed.

They dont have the ability in some older Samsung phones that were being used at the time to capture that data of text, messages and emails. That say you work at a company like we do where the company issues you a device. Well, the company keeps a lot of that data on their side, not even in our control. We have no way of deleting it, so this report actually found that there was no malintent. Nobody tried to delete a phone. At least there is no evidence of that, but it does wake up the whole idea about who is in control of our data, and would we allow or want somebody, such as an agent or an investigator, to have the ability to take away data from their own devices being used in a official capacity Jedediah Kurt. Let me ask you, though, could you just I wouldnt Eastern know how to do this? If you wanted to return to factory settings or entered your password too many times, would that make it so that no data was able to be retrieved ever? Is there no way to recover any

of this stuff? You know, forensic experts are able to reconstruct a lot of data inside of devices like cell phones, but in the case of say, turning a device back in to the organization that gave it to you, such as the FBI, such as the Doj. It is going to be a matter of standard operating procedures to wipe that data, which means dont just delete it, destroy the data on it before it is issued to someone else that is standard operating protocol, most everywhere its a flag of glaring. Why is this deleted because we do this so other information doesnt get out. It raises a red flag when Jedediah Kurt. Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this, though I have a phone right here. If I want to delete the data on this phone, how easy would it be for me to do it? You know, for you pretty easy, a your sophisticated b. All of us have that power, whether you have Android Iphone any

tablet or a windows pc or a MAC. I show you online how not just to delete your data, destroy your data. You want to do that before you give the phone away to someone else, you may donate it sell it, give it a younger one on the family, you want to reset it wipe the data, just like other people do in the government Jedediah. I dont know Kurt im having a hard time believing it was accidentally wiped, but that is just me thanks for being here to break down the tech of it all with us. Today, cyberguy dot com, a free newsletter. I send all the delays instructions you do want to wipe your own.