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Normally, if I want all the data on my hard drive instantly obliterated, I just let my wife use my computer for a few minutes. This machine is probably cheaper too.
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Preferred data wipe method: Kyle shooting drives with a 50 cal.
Normally, if I want all the data on my hard drive instantly obliterated, I just let my wife use my computer for a few minutes. This machine is probably cheaper too.
QFT, must be a slow day for stuff like that to make the news, but hey, page impressions are page impressions, right Steve?By the way this shit has been around forever
Take the hard drive and encase it in cement. Future archeological dig will find ancient porn in the future.
Strong magnet in a box with a push button switch to kill the magnet if the door is open. AMAZING! NOT!
You can still retrieve the data due to residual magnetic effects. So even if you were able to realign the field for all the blocks, they would not be at the same strength. Run 3 hard drives, for which you write data to in a specific fashion, through the data kill and analyze how the fields change in strength. That should be more than enough to develop an algorithm to salvage data from almost any drive run through the data kill.
All marketing hype. No engineering.
Yea the NSA has also gone on record to say they can recover a hard drive without physical damage in the vast majority of cases even when strong magnetic fields have wiped out the main stream of the data alignment.
That's BS. The NSA doesn't have the capability to defy the laws of physics and never will.
Normally, if I want all the data on my hard drive instantly obliterated, I just let my wife use my computer for a few minutes. This machine is probably cheaper too.
For those with unlimited budgets and unlimited time with super computing power, most known hard drive erasing techniques the data can potentially be recovered (I doubt it's been tested too much). Scientists have been able to recover some data from shredded HDD's (bits and pieces and it becomes a puzzle - but with enough resources, time and money, it can be put together...). There are a few that can't, and those that have sensitive enough data will be sure to completely destroy (DBAN, Magnetic, shred, incinerate) the thing.
For most people 99.9% of the time a DBAN would work great. It's those .1% that have the sensitive data that needs to be never recovered, even if there is that .00000000000001% chance that it could potentially be recovered.
Would anyone go through that trouble? Doubt it.
My wife tried to erase everything off my HDD once when she got pissed at me. I got it all back within about 5 minutes. She doesn't even try anymore.
Back in the early 90's a place I worked for had a huge electromagnet (handheld, but heavy) to erase floppy disks. I'm guessing this uses the same thing, just a bit stronger....
You'd be surprised how much you could salvage from a 50 cal'd drive. If even one of your "special photos" is recoverable, you're done.
Somebody is gonna be sleeping on the couch tonightNormally, if I want all the data on my hard drive instantly obliterated, I just let my wife use my computer for a few minutes.
Deleting references to stored information isn't the same as overwriting sectors. You were able to recover data because your wife hadn't overwritten areas on the disc where the previous data had been stored.
On a modern HDD one field reversal in a magnetic domain is enough to securely erase data, period. Residual magnetism could have theoretically been detected from domains in data blocks on very old hard drives with much stronger fields (the kind that weighed 300 lbs and stored a few megabytes) but not on anything manufactured after the early 1980s.
That's BS. The NSA doesn't have the capability to defy the laws of physics and never will.
Laws of Physics not withstanding , this isn't about that. You think because you applied a strong magnetic current that your hard drive information is gone?
Must be a nice "bubble" world you live in. Go to Google and enlighten yourself.
Lol @ all the "you can just use a hammer/gun/whatever" comments.
The point of this is that you're not destroying the drive along with the data.
The point of this is that you're not destroying the drive along with the data.
http://www.oss-spectrum.org/Attach2.htm said:Degaussing hard drives often destroys the drive's timing tracks and servo motors, and usually demagnetizes the permanent magnets of the spindle motor on sealed drives, thus they can seldom be used after degaussing.