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Pros and Cons of Windows 8
sams88:
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--- Quote from: Tatsujin on April 08, 2013, 05:33:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: mrdkreka on April 08, 2013, 04:05:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: QuickSilvyr on April 08, 2013, 03:52:59 PM ---Don't watch porn on it. Anyone with a bit of pc know how can take your hdd apart and see what has been on it. There are programs to wipe discs but hey,... forensics can unearth a lot what ppl think they have securely erased. To be sure that no one can read the hdd... destroy it. Bring a sledgehammer down on it a couple of times till the discs inside shatter or are completely bent.
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Or you know just do a complex overwrite (7 passes will keep the police away from accessing your deleted data, 35passes if you want to be sure even NASA can't restore it)
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How do you do those passes?
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maybe do write/delete cycles?
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How do you do that with a 1TB HDD ? and how are you sure that it is doing the cycles on the portion containing the data I want destroyed ? ???
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: sams88 on April 08, 2013, 06:30:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 08, 2013, 06:26:38 PM ---
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on April 08, 2013, 05:33:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: mrdkreka on April 08, 2013, 04:05:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: QuickSilvyr on April 08, 2013, 03:52:59 PM ---Don't watch porn on it. Anyone with a bit of pc know how can take your hdd apart and see what has been on it. There are programs to wipe discs but hey,... forensics can unearth a lot what ppl think they have securely erased. To be sure that no one can read the hdd... destroy it. Bring a sledgehammer down on it a couple of times till the discs inside shatter or are completely bent.
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Or you know just do a complex overwrite (7 passes will keep the police away from accessing your deleted data, 35passes if you want to be sure even NASA can't restore it)
--- End quote ---
How do you do those passes?
--- End quote ---
maybe do write/delete cycles?
--- End quote ---
How do you do that with a 1TB HDD ? and how are you sure that it is doing the cycles on the portion containing the data I want destroyed ? ???
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there is an app that do full capacity write/delete cycles, they're benchmarks if i remember correctly.
you can see your hdd free space shrink to 0% and back to 100%.
Pentium100:
While the 7 overwrite advice is a bit outdated, even a single pass takes quite long on modern drives.
However, if you want to be able to destroy your data, just use encryption with a really long key file. Destroying all copies of the key file will effectively render your data unreadable and would be much easier/faster than trying to overwrite the entire hard drive.
QuickSilvyr:
There are programs like DiskWipe, Fileshredder, Diskscrubber... lotsa names. They do it for you. It runs a routine over the disc that writes nonsense files front to back over the disc and that 7 or more times. Not only the headers but also the partions of the disc. Each sector is written new and that 7x. I haven't really used one cuz I tossed it out as I saw it would take half a day for a 160gb hdd. That was several years ago. Maybe the discs are so much faster and the progs so much more effective. What I still always consider is that if there is a lock then there is a key. They say that those apps are good to permanently erase hdds. Though, I'd rather destroy the disk from being physically read again than to rely on "just" deleting. If you are so paranoid with the data you have.
I, for my situation, just didn't want a dad buying the hdds for his kid and an unnamed kid, that is a pc wiz, suddenly has a bag full of adult candy sprouting tentacles and whatever on their "new" disc. >.<
update:
Or what Pentium100 wrote 2 min b4 me ^^. That works if you use a 256bit key file. even the big petaflop monsters would take years to crack such a key... just to find out if you had porn on it... ok.. overkill if you please ;D .
sams88:
--- Quote from: QuickSilvyr on April 08, 2013, 06:52:54 PM ---I, for my situation, just didn't want a dad buying the hdds for his kid and an unnamed kid, that is a pc wiz, suddenly has a bag full of adult candy sprouting tentacles and whatever on their "new" disc. >.<
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That would actually would not be a problem ... imagine if he gets those pictures of your girls friend >.<
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