Backfire beginning.
Careful - disinfo is necessary. This may be a way to lull the asshats into a state where they think they have a chance when they already have a red dot on their foreheads.
The way to prevent the cabal from happening is to shine a light on surveillance. It is a difficult balance. Our technology has progressed very far ahead of our governmental structures.
This is something people need to have a discussion about, but don't expect this surveillance shit to disappear too quickly. Solutions that make it unnecessary would have to precede that decision. (Having the back of the cabal broken would remove much of the need for it, IMO.)
It depends on the media and the software destroying the data. If the designer of the system understands the physics of the media (and the device isn't compromised….pfft) then it isn't necessarily difficult to delete data completely. You just need to understand how it would be recovered and make sure you're well below the discernment threshhold.
And yes, you can read destroyed data from flash drives even if they've been written over. Physically, it is similar to magnetic media. Have a nice day.
Your programmer friend isn't very good and likes to brag about stupid shit. (Just my professional opinion.)
Perhaps nobody. Given the scope of what's been going on, it wouldn't surprise me if he's in a witness protection program. However, if this is the case, there is no way anyone's going to find out until it is revealed, so it isn't worth debating.
Owlized. Interesting.