Hard drives are something I don't trust in somebody else's hand, if I want a new one or the hold one breaks I'd be taking some heavy precautions to get rid of whatever was on it, be it industrial scrap yard magnet or sledgehammer.
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;35704772]Hard drives are something I don't trust in somebody else's hand, if I want a new one or the hold one breaks I'd be taking some heavy precautions to get rid of whatever was on it, be it industrial scrap yard magnet or sledgehammer.[/QUOTE]
Electric drill through the platters.
[QUOTE=jordguitar;35705416]Electric drill through the platters.[/QUOTE]
I turn mine into speakers.
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Well no shit son. 90% of people don't give a flying fuck about their old data.
I fucking hate reports like this that cite the vulnerability of "Grandma's Secret Recipes". It only makes my life maintaining older computers even more harder because the replacement drives get harder to find.
This has been known for a while, I remember something quite a few years back where a bunch of people went and bought loads of second hand HDDs and were able to pull loads of card details and stuff from them.
These drives were purchased on [I]eBay[/I], so I'm not surprised. Actually, I'm surprised that the rate wasn't higher.
Now I'm pretty sure that refurbished drives sold through Newegg and the like and properly wiped before being sold.
They did call in a forensic guy to do it though. So, maybe drives that were reformatted still were legible for him.
Can anything read the NATO 7-pass hard drive nuke?
The article is vague, did the previous owner simply pull the harddrive out of his computer without removing any files?
Did the owner delete the files but because of the way the OS handles the files the actual binary data remained on the disk?
How was the data extracted from the harddrives?
[QUOTE=Cushie;35705897]This has been known for a while, I remember something quite a few years back where a bunch of people went and bought loads of second hand HDDs and were able to pull loads of card details and stuff from them.[/QUOTE]
Watchdog, though they went into africa or something and found HDD's on the cheap, among other parts.
[QUOTE=munky91;35707394]They did call in a forensic guy to do it though. So, maybe drives that were reformatted still were legible for him.
Can anything read the NATO 7-pass hard drive nuke?[/QUOTE]
No matter how hard to nuke the data, you can still recover it.
And yes they have been able to recover data from a 7-pass nuke, wasn't complete but enough to tell what it belonged to.
The only real way to wipe data is to destroy the device with a magnet or other means.
I thought everyone destroyed and disposed of old used hard drives to avoid this? Everyone I know just puts a few gaping holes in it with an electric drill, and then they hit it with a hammer for good measure.
Yes i will destroy my dead hard drive with magnets and fire to prevent my mommy from using CSI tech to see what porn i was looking at.
[QUOTE=WittyUsername;35709542]I thought everyone destroyed and disposed of old used hard drives to avoid this? Everyone I know just puts a few gaping holes in it with an electric drill, and then they hit it with a hammer for good measure.[/QUOTE]
On the corporate level it makes sense to degauss or shred their decommissioned drives but as Breen said...
[quote]Yes i will destroy my dead hard drive with magnets and fire to prevent my mommy from using CSI tech to see what porn i was looking at. [/quote]
...there really is no point on destroying or even multi-pass wiping your hard drive simply because you probably never really did anything that would attract the level of attention needed to have a guy read 1's and 0's with a microscope.
Again this is just one of those sensationalist articles that say "This used hard drive has data on it. IT MUST BE SENSITIVE PERSONAL CREDIT CARD INFORMATION" or as my old employer called it, "Grandma's Secret Recipes".
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