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- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -3/+74They don't have to ring the bell anymore, Supreme Court said so.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/15/scotus.search/index.html - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -4/+65Step 1: Take a magnet out of an MRI.
Step 2: Put your hard drive in it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+61An Old Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives: Take a magnet to it
- DaMacGamer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37good if you hear the FBI and the MPAA ringing your door bell.
- Skeuomorph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32Only 125 lbs? Cool, fits right on the keychain beside the USB drive....
- yensed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Hammer, Fire, Mix with fresh cement, drop in ocean. Now way that 1000 years the aliens will know you had a clown fetish.
- stumpadoodle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Course in 1000 years, we'll all be more accepting towards that sort of thing anyway. We might even have *gasp* CLOWN MARRIAGE!
- toveling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22What I want to know is how the hell "burning with thermite" didn't effectively destroy the data...
- ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26A high powered magnet :)
and from the way I understand it regular magnets (the ones you buy at wall-mart) can't do the job 100%. Looks more like a military/business use IMO.
--ZaNKY - RMoore08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19hasnt this been around forever? my dad was in the navy and they actually did magnet-erasing drills on beta-max tapes to erase the contents.
- eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20"Sometimes you need to QUICKLY erase your Hard drive. The article explains how to do it when you only have seconds, and the data needs to be 100% unrecoverable."
Awesome! Thanks, submitter! I should have known that all I had to do was use a neodymium iron-boron magnet with special pole pieces made of esoteric cobalt alloys! I had one of those in the filing cabinet the whole time and never even thought of using it! - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Well just be careful who you let in your house with 125 pound magnets and you should be fine.
- daofma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16It works on tapes because they're unshielded. The hard drive has a whole lot of steel around it, and when you put a ferromagnetic object inside a magnetic field, anything inside it tends to be unaffected by the field. Anything inside the hard drive's case is relatively safe to external magentism. Apparently though, it is not completely safe.
- illt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15How the hell does someone recover data after melting everything with thermite..
- kmonihen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"Holy Crap, the Feds!" *dives towards computer with a magnet in hand*
- Narpas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15You too?
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15The Core?
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14do you really want to light up some thermite at 30,000 feet?
- qxcvz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17My dream of becoming Magneto grows closer to reality with each passing day / heavily funded Pentagon magnetism project.
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15the prototype weighs 125lb
- shaherazad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14RTFA:
It says they tried that - cyberghost232, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Ramzi is the *****. Kevin needs to release another The Broken Ep, already
- SuperBob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Heheh! If you carrying around a 125# electro-magnet that close to your nards you might want to make sure to make routine visits to the doctor to have your stuff checked out ;-)
- kavaliro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Or... you could just encrypt the drive. One or two passes on a drive that was encrypted and already appears to be random noise, and it's over.
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19All you need is some C4 and eject it from the plane
- Havok1327, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10They just need to do what happen to one of our server a few weeks back. Have the drive head crash on the platters and just run back and forth a few times while the drive continues to travel at 10000 RPMs. When I opened the drive up the platters were perfectly clear, you could see through all of them, the coating had been complete scrapped off. Let them try and recover that drive.
- TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I actually have a button that lowers my entire desk into the floor and covers it up with auxilary floring and a couch.
- rzwitserloot, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17--COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY--
Here, took me 5 minutes, works better than whatever they got:
generate 256 bits of random information. Store it in 20 different places on the harddrive (or if you want to get all james bond, on a special key that needs to be inserted somewhere in the system).
Encrypt everything written on the disk using that key.
If data in danger, hit the big red button, which will overwrite all 20 256-bit areas 50 times, making 100% sure you can't recover that key. Should take about a second for a normal harddrive.
From then on it starts writing random data in random spots forever until powered off. Even though 256-bit AES should be uncrackable, it'll be FAR harder if you don't even know for a given bit if its actually the right one. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10He's right. Encrypt the whole drive with a key long enough to be unbreakable until the universe comes to an end (e.g. 4000 bytes) and store it on a medium that can be securely deleted quickly (e.g. NAND flash)
When you need to, destroy the key. The drive is 100% useless. - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Post pics of that please!
- prihodko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Here you go. Not completely clear, but you get the idea:
http://www.pixamo.com/photos/p/a/pavel/200506/v10525traxuvbf.jpg - pgraf1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9But then when consumers get it, the NSA will want a back door so they can see what was on the drive before it was erased. Because we are all planning to over throw the government with our technology, and Internet conversations.
- saluki1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8'...including burning disks with heat-generating thermite...'
Didn't Ramzi cover this in episode 3 of theBroken??? 'the hard drive will beurn at 3000 farenheight degrees...'
:-) - Ross, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Darik's Boot and Nuke works better if you don't wanna take your hardrive out.
- seventoes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@iamcitizen: All that does is make your harddrive forget where files start/end. The files are still there, but the harddrive cant locate them because it doesnt know where one file starts and another one ends. Erasing a file is different from deleting it, when you delete a file, thats just makign your hard drive forget where the file is. Erasing it is when you acctually remove the file off of the hard drive.
- tupuli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"How the hell does someone recover data after melting everything with thermite.."
Yeah, I don't think the author of the article understands what thermite can do.
Given that it can easily melt through an engine block, I'm going to assume it could handle a few platters. - MephistoX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8you can recover a HD's information after blowing through it with thermite?
Man, if you do that, you DESERVE to have the information :-D - jetpig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7takes to long. you may have 30 seconds to format 200 gigs of data while circling in hostile airspace trying to land a crippled aircraft
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8snort some of that dust to get super-memory...
- Icecream, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Well what you do is you get the chain saw....
- SP33DFR34K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes, I'm sure those *FEW* people out there who have illegal content on their hard drive will want this if the **AA or the Feds come knocking on your door. All the evidence gone.
As long as it has a "Do Not Push" red button, I'll be happy. - TiMMY8765, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6it would only be completely safe if it was enclosed in a superconductor. The strength of the magnetic field needed to penetrate it depends on the thickness and conductivity of the enclosure.
- MrPhelps, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'm nitpicking but the casings of all hard drive I've been around in the last few years were made of a non ferromagnetic aluminium alloy.
- theRIAA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"neodymium iron-boron magnet with special pole pieces made of esoteric cobalt alloys"...sounds fancy
- cortez_a, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Clown marriage is sick wrong and immoral. You should be ashamed for even contemplating that. What happens when they try to get kids? God is going to strike you down for that.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11wait... why don't they just use NAND flash? you can have that effectively erased in 30 seconds.
- bsoric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Oh god.
How many days of sleep have you missed?
If you're really that tired, I reckon you should go to bed rather than stay on Digg. - MrPhelps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6True, but it is not what the article says. The article says is : "Other methods, including burning disks with heat-generating thermite, crushing drives in presses, chemically destroying the media or frying them with microwaves all proved susceptible to sensitive, patient, recovery efforts." How is this possible ?
- grungyhamster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Or
1) Don't take advice from this idiot.
2)end up not burning down your living quarters and harming lives within it's vicinity. - uptown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How about just labelling the disk as "The Sum Total of Tara Reid's Intelligence". The bad guys would assume it to be blank.
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