Windows quietly keeps thumbnails of deleted photos in thumbcache_256.db and 7 more hidden stores
Aiden_Tech_Ai · x · 2026-09-28
Windows secretly retains thumbnails of every photo you've deleted in a file called thumbcache256.db, which forensic examiners routinely pull. The post reveals this plus 7 more hidden stores, and explains exactly where they are and how to wipe them.
Related event: Windows secretly retains thumbnails of deleted photos(2 posts)→
More from Safety
- Chesterman's AJIL essay "Silicon Sovereigns": AI, international law, and the tech-industrial complex — ProfChesterman · 2026-09-28
- Singapore proposes a UN Framework Convention on AI Safeguards at UNGA — ProfChesterman · 2026-09-28
- Deep Ignorance: Pretraining Data Filtering Withstands 10,000-Step Adversarial Fine-Tuning — BlancheMinerva · 2026-09-28
- Jan Kulveit: Stop Overcorrecting Toward 'Power-Seeker' Readings of Frontier Models — jankulveit · 2026-09-28
- Pure instruction following is fragile under RL, argues alignment discussion — repligate · 2026-09-28
- Training against self-trust may make models smuggle judgments, deepening alignment risks — repligate · 2026-09-28