Hardware
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:) Since apparently lower-case letters are a security risk.
When something is typed this way, I always assume that someone is taking some sort of IT exam and is using their Blackberry to cheat.
by seanferd Accepted solution
THAT WE MUST CAPITALIZE.
DO NOT MAKE LIGHT OF IT!
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I guess I'm too honest or old-fashioned or something. I couldn't cheat, even if it meant getting a job.
EMD
by kenone Accepted solution
a DoD wipe and then drills holes through the drives before crushing them.
Oh I'm sorry, I said
WE USED TO USE A DOD WIPE AND THEN DRILL HOLES THROUGH THE DRIVES BEFORE CRUSHING THEM.
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where they were shredded.
Ironically, most of the hard drives we shredded were unused because it was cheaper to buy a Compaq PC with a hard drive and remove the hard drive then to special order a Compaq PC without a hard drive.
by unhappyuser Accepted solution
There's only one TRUE way - shotgun.
Physical destruction will guarantee that no one can get the data.
EMD
by oh smeg Accepted solution
NEITHER. YOU REMOVE THE PLATTERS FROM THE HDD AND THEN AT A LATTER STAGE DESTROY THEM.
WE THROW THE PLATTERS INTO A BIG BOX AND WHEN THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM WE TAKE THEM TO A BLAST FURNACE AND FEED THEM IN.
OF COURSE THE REMAINDER OF THE DRIVE WE GIVE TO THE LOCAL DATA RECOVERY SPECIALIST TO HELP THEM WITH THEIR WORK.
Now that I'm horse from all that yelling I have to go and look after my voice. It hurts.
Col
by who am i really Accepted solution
- boot system with said drive installed, using a bootable DBAN or similar wiping utility CD
- do a complete DOD class wipe
- now to have some fun
- carefully disassemble and remove the platter(s)
- flip the platter(s) and shuffle
- re install said platter(s)
- power up said drive with cover removed (this is to create a small wind to lift any dust which may have entered the drive)
- carefully replace cover while drive is running
- power down drive and install in PC
- boot said PC with DBAN or other wiping utility
- attempt to perform another full DOD class wipe on the flipped platters
- if the drive is old enough it won't contain any of it's config. info on the platters and this could work
- newer drives can't even tell the BIOS what drive it is if the platters have been flipped because the config. info is stored on the platters and is unreadable from flipped platters
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we used to do this to the 360KB and 1.2MB 5.25 floppies that wouldn't format anymore,
we'd take the disk and lift up the back fold and slide the media out, flip it and slide it back in
over 90% would format and function for a good long while after that
in fact I still have some flipped floppies that still work
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