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I saw a data recovery and forensics expert speaking on a disk imaging tool which, unlike typical disk imagers that only read forward (and skip over sectors when they hit bad spots), this tool integrates code from dcfldd and "changes direction" in order to read backward, and forward again. It also comes back to sectors, like it's mimicking a torrent. In this way, he has recovered data in which other data recovery guys had previously marked "unreadable" and assumes them all as 0's. So naturally, my first thought turned to BleachBit. ...