In fact, just the opposite occurred, it spawned the development of foreign firms in the encryption space and the launch of competing products.

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But during the process of encryption, unencrypted copies of those files were stored in the unallocated space, where discarded files are temporarily kept in pieces without the identifying data to find them or reassemble them easily.

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