Originally Posted by
guflyer
Thanks for verifying this. My concern is that many on this forum who discuss deleting everything before traveling are giving themselves a false sense of security as their data can be accessed even after the deletion.
I am surprised that no company has come out with a phone/tablet device that really deletes data, making it completely irretrievable. It seems like there would be a significant market for this right now.
I am no expert, but understand, it is very specialized tools that can recover data from a device that has been purposely cleaned. I don't know if CBP would go to that kind of trouble, or if it is available to them, unless a really strong reason was presented. I would be more concerned with the addition of software by government.