On 2014-01-26, mike wrote:
On 1/25/2014 7:17 PM, jon_banquer wrote:
Here is why you're a ****ing moron if you think smashing your hard drive is a good answer to protecting your data from someone determined enough to read it.

You're also a ****ing moron if you believe iggy is some kind a computer expert.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...drive-14877558

"Yes, physically destroying a hard drive renders your device and the data on it unusable. But with enough motivation and the right equipment?and the F.B.I. has both?some of your data can be recovered. Dan Kaminsky, chief scientist of security firm DKH, says 100 percent physical data destruction is nearly impossible. The only method that comes close is overwriting the disk.


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Recovery engineers remove the disk, which is stored on a platter, and
put it on a larger, dedicated reader.
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If you can do that, you didn't destroy/smash the disk.

I do believe that it is possible to restore some small pieces of
information/files on scattered pieces from a shattered, crushed hard
drive. (Most of those pieces were pea sized, in my case.)

However, the cost of restoration will likely be prohibitive, and
whatever pieces can be restored, likely will not be the pieces that
the attacker needs. Also, given that filesystem information likely
resides on pieces other than what contains files, just restoring some
file contents would not tell the attacker what is that file and where
it was.

It would be cheaper to kidnap and torture me, than to restore a
crushed hard drive to get some specific information, like my SSH keys.

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