Magnetism and Binary Encoding
From Numb3rs
00:00 - 01:15
1m 15s

In this episode the data from a murdered researcher's computer is recovered after being "wiped". In the clip, Charlie uses the basics of magnetism and binary encoding to explore how the two are combined to store data on hard disk drives and how this data might be recovered after being overwritten with other data.

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