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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2013, 07:57:30 PM »
Quote from: billt on July 31, 2013, 07:50:38 PM
I once watched a show on how police obtain evidence off hard drives that criminals had thought they had "erased". Most of the data is always recoverable. They said the only way to completely erase a hard drive, was to remove it from the computer, and smash it with a hammer.

When you delete a file you only delete the directory.  The data is still there.
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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2013, 06:44:35 AM »
Hard Drives are for pussies.

Down Under we shoot the damn lot!  :-*
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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2013, 09:04:30 AM »
Quote from: tt11758 on July 31, 2013, 07:57:30 PM
When you delete a file you only delete the directory.  The data is still there.

there are high grade security programs that wipe a drive by recording junk over all of it repeatedly say 6 times to totally wipe the old data. Takes a while but does work.
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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2013, 10:02:08 AM »
Quote from: JoeG on August 01, 2013, 09:04:30 AM
there are high grade security programs that wipe a drive by recording junk over all of it repeatedly say 6 times to totally wipe the old data. Takes a while but does work.

I thought there was a program that, "changed all of the zeros and ones to all zeros", or some such. It's hard to believe there isn't a way to completely clean it.
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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2013, 10:50:59 AM »
Quote from: JoeG on August 01, 2013, 09:04:30 AM
there are high grade security programs that wipe a drive by recording junk over all of it repeatedly say 6 times to totally wipe the old data. Takes a while but does work.

Quote from: billt on August 01, 2013, 10:02:08 AM
I thought there was a program that, "changed all of the zeros and ones to all zeros", or some such. It's hard to believe there isn't a way to completely clean it.

I used to use Kapersky's Defender-Pro anti virus. The package had a "clean & wipe" program that let the user set the parameters on how extensive the purge was.... it went anywhere from a quick once-over to a seven-layer wipe that was the same style the gubmint uses to overwrite the data to the point that it couldn't be resurrected (which took over seven hours or more).

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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2013, 02:12:34 PM »
Kapersky himself is former KGB, he actually bragged about it in an interview with "Wired" magazine.
He was the guy who identified the "Stuxnet" virus that was infecting the Iranian nuke program as being from the CIA .
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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2013, 02:37:13 PM »
Quote from: billt on July 31, 2013, 07:50:38 PM
I once watched a show on how police obtain evidence off hard drives that criminals had thought they had "erased". Most of the data is always recoverable. They said the only way to completely erase a hard drive, was to remove it from the computer, and smash it with a hammer.

I heard that drilling a few holes through it works too.
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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2013, 06:14:25 PM »
A little birdie I once knew told me that nitric acid works well. Just don't breath in the fumes, I guess.
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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #18 on: August 01, 2013, 07:23:49 PM »
Another thing a lot of folks don't know is that many copy machines have hard drives and store images of everything copied on the machine.

http://lifehacker.com/5540834/erase-your-copy-machines-hard-drive-to-wipe-important-documents

http://www.govtech.com/pcio/Are-Digital-Copy-Machines-Really-a.html

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Re: Ever shoot a Hard Drive?
« Reply #19 on: August 08, 2013, 09:35:37 PM »
I ended up using a pick axe on the hard drives, and it was still hard to smash 'em. I'd like to have a car made of Hard Drive Stuff...I could probably drive it through a bridge abutment...

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