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Offline thundley4

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Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« on: November 25, 2011, 05:45:05 PM »
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PM Martin (1000+ posts)           Fri Nov-25-11 05:47 PM
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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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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2011, 05:53:22 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 25, 2011, 05:45:05 PM
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%.... :-)

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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2011, 05:56:49 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on November 25, 2011, 05:53:22 PM
Kiddie porn + police = worried DUmmie

Uh huh.
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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2011, 05:57:09 PM »
Normal people don't typically ask questions like this.  What did this primitive do, that he's trying to hide?
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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2011, 06:14:40 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 25, 2011, 05:45:05 PM
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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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2011, 06:36:59 PM »
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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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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2011, 06:45:07 PM »
Is he this guy?  Pretending to be from Canada, but really just a perv from Syracuse?

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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2011, 06:49:55 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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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2011, 07:07:32 PM »
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.

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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2011, 07:26:20 PM »
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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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #10 on: November 25, 2011, 07:57:30 PM »
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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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #11 on: November 25, 2011, 07:59:28 PM »
Quote from: Skul on November 25, 2011, 07:57:30 PM
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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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2011, 10:26:13 PM »
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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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2011, 12:58:53 AM »
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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Re: Canadian DUmmie worried about hard drive contents.
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2011, 04:49:38 AM »
Quote from: compaqxp on November 26, 2011, 12:58:53 AM
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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