Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 76.105.79.64]
on May 30, 2008 07:20 PM
What! You must have missed the episode where the guy was convicted based on the evidences recovered from a floppy disk he destroyed by cutting up with a pair of scissors. At the time, no one knew how to recover the data from the cut-up floppy, not even the FBI forensics lab. If they could, it would cost roughly $150,000 or more!
So the investigator did the experiment with Scotch tape and some blank floppy disk. In the end, it cost him roughly $50 dollars or so, for a floppy drive he broke during the experiment, Scotch tape and floppy disks.
Don't under estimate the determination of a criminal investigator.
Now the hard drive is different, but who knows?
:) :) :) :) :) :) ;=)
Anyway, for general purpose HD wiping, a bootable DBAN will do a good job of making it extremely difficult to recover data on the HD.
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Re: Wiping your disk drive clean
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 76.105.79.64] on May 30, 2008 07:20 PMSo the investigator did the experiment with Scotch tape and some blank floppy disk. In the end, it cost him roughly $50 dollars or so, for a floppy drive he broke during the experiment, Scotch tape and floppy disks.
Don't under estimate the determination of a criminal investigator.
Now the hard drive is different, but who knows?
:) :) :) :) :) :) ;=)
Anyway, for general purpose HD wiping, a bootable DBAN will do a good job of making it extremely difficult to recover data on the HD.
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