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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on November 25, 2011, 05:45:05 PM
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PM Martin (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-25-11 05:47 PM
Original message
Question: If you write over an ENTIRE hard drive with data,
will any data that existed before the overwrite be recoverable? Yes? No?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2380273
Lots of opinions from fellow DUmmies that know from experience. I wonder how they know so much about it? If you're that worried about what is on a drive, just physically destroy it. Maybe there is a situation of being forced to surrender the drive.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2380273
Lots of opinions from fellow DUmmies that know from experience. I wonder how they know so much about it? If you're that worried about what is on a drive, just physically destroy it. Maybe there is a situation of being forced to surrender the drive.
There's a 99% chance you're right.....now you're one of the 99%.... :-)
Kiddie porn + police = worried DUmmie
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Kiddie porn + police = worried DUmmie
Uh huh.
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Normal people don't typically ask questions like this. What did this primitive do, that he's trying to hide?
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2380273
Lots of opinions from fellow DUmmies that know from experience. I wonder how they know so much about it? If you're that worried about what is on a drive, just physically destroy it. Maybe there is a situation of being forced to surrender the drive.
Methinks Sir Thundley the IVth has struck a nerve here. Sounds as if our little DUmmie is having a severe bout of the post-confiscation jitters. :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic: :panic:
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Dennis Donovan (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-25-11 05:59 PM
Response to Original message
11. Aren't you the same DUer that wanted to wipe his drive and send it back under warranty on the 21st?
Edited on Fri Nov-25-11 06:00 PM by Dennis Donovan
The amount of queries about this subject from you is starting to trouble me...
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Is he this guy? Pretending to be from Canada, but really just a perv from Syracuse?
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7279293/police-search-home-syracuse-assistant-coach-bernie-fine
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-25-11 05:50 PM
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3. If you fill your hard drive with porn, they may stop looking for hidden data, and just fap instead.
Umm, that just might be why the pervert is having a problem right now.
Nice suggestion, BTW.
Idiot.
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Dear DUmmies,
It all depends on who's looking. If, for instance, the FBI decides they really want what was on there, you're probably toast. But, those porn-scrubbing utilities that overwite the drive with gibberish in every sector multiple times will work on most commercial or industrial utilities that would be used by your local popo or the manufacturer to just check it out.
Signed,
'A friend'
O-)
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I sold a computer last year. I do my personal finances on Quicken, and have other personal information on the computer.
CCLeaner did the trick for me. It took a couple hours, but after I "deleted" the sensitive material it (supposedly*) overwrote all the "empty" sectors of the HD with ones, and then with zeros, five times each (IIRC). If there was any accidental donkey pr0n left over (I don't want to talk about it) I'me reasonably certain it was lost forever.
*In the ensuing year i have had no troubles I would associate with someone getting my private info. This tells me (a) the person who bought my computer didn't look for it, (b) wasn't knowledgable enough to find it, or (c) the software did what it claimed to do.
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I'm not the most computer literate person out there.
Hard drives are cheap.
Wouldn't be just as easy to throw the damn thing in the burn pile and light it off?
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I'm not the most computer literate person out there.
Hard drives are cheap.
Wouldn't be just as easy to throw the damn thing in the burn pile and light it off?
That's what I was thinking, myself.
Just throw it away and get a new one.
That is, unless the primitive really wants to keep something that's on the old one, for some, uh, reason.
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Um, not disclosing any classified info, but you can recover everything even if you smash the hd to fragments. It never goes away completely.
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I use DBAN when I get rid of computers. One really can't help but wonder what's on his hard drive though because he's asked before if I recall.
Also I like the dummmies name, PM Martin. He wasn't a good PM, he was a good finance minister. (imo)
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I use DBAN when I get rid of computers. One really can't help but wonder what's on his hard drive though because he's asked before if I recall.
Also I like the dummmies name, PM Martin. He wasn't a good PM, he was a good finance minister. (imo)
Never counter a DUmmie with facts, it just confuses them.
Then it pisses them off.
Which is not always a bad thing. :-)