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Friend: I wiped this drive, and then I open it in my Hex viewer app, and it's all zeros!

Me: yeah?

Friend: Why isn't it empty?

Me: uh well a drive must have its bits set to some value and can't just nothingness so zeros is just a default meaningless value that resolves to nothing..

Friend: No, but why is it full of zeros? why it isn't empty?

...

I attempted several times and then exploded. rip self

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  • 27
    7y
    Being confronted with true idiocy takes a toll on my sanity. I'm not sure how much I have left.

    At this rate I may go insane long before I'm able to find the Technonomicon and use it summon the ASI.
  • 34
    7y
    That kind of person that can use a hex viewer but has no knowledge of basic technology
  • 2
    7y
    Well because its size doesn't change (shrink or grow) depending on the data you put into it... Could be a good way to explain it to him?
  • 2
    7y
    @wholl0p same thing I still think about

    I highly doubt that they know what does a Hex viewer even after this
  • 6
    7y
    So, if I've sent you a hardrive containing a secret message, which happened to be all zeros - how do you erase it? That's what I'd like to know.
  • 1
    7y
    @elazar I'll use a hammer.
  • 0
    7y
    @elazar Well that isn't a message. It's the default state of all memory being sold.
  • 0
    7y
    @xsacha that's a perfectly legitimate message, and could be very informative.
  • 0
    7y
    @elazar to erase it you rewrite it to some other values and ppl send secret messages encripted which would looks then totally like randomness
    Haveing everything in zereo is only default value also when u fast format u still have all informations on disk only the allocation table is filled with default zeros thats why you can restore deleted/formatted data if u didnt overwrote them
  • 1
    7y
    "when your wallet is empty, what is the monetary value of its contents? “
  • 0
    7y
    @ivrat "everything zeroed" might also be a perfectly valid encrypted message.
  • 0
    7y
    @elazar only if the data isn't optional, otherwise the message would be the same as the null case.

    That is, you'd have to expect there is a message first
  • 0
    7y
    @elazar zeroes means literally no data at all you couldnt even read the length of message eg. Null terminated strings
  • 1
    7y
    self.rip()
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