Posted on 08/11/2021 11:35:32 AM PDT by gaggs
Thanks.
Bttt.
5.56mm
> Nothing is permanently deleted unless they used a shredding software, and even then
Where did you get that idea? As soon as a disk cluster is freed it can be filled with other data.
Some data remains when deleted but it’s completely unreliable. What do you think happens when you fill a disk, delete 10% of it, and fill that part? You think the old data is still around?
Its there, the magnetic domains are not completely gone. They are just reduced in number so they are below the normal drive’s detection threshold. Specialized equipment can recover it.
Having had a long career in information systems, I can tell you we are NOT inclined to delete ANYTHING, least of all data & logs.
And if the county administrators were even semi-competent they would have several backups of the servers from before the Dominion update.
And no one from the county has indicated that they don't.
I'll be stunned if this episode shows any malfeasance.
Re: 65 - A good reason to remove, dissemble and drill out drive platters with at least 3-4 holes 1/4” in size. One site we work at grinds the platters.
bleach bit recomended by hillary clinton
LOL!
I don’t trust software. Physical destruction of media is the only way to ensure data cannot be recovered. Some sites we support require that.
the military used to burn then drown paper documents till it was mushy fertilizer
At one military installation we did some FTXs at, they showed me their classified documents incinerator. Impressive. It even had its own Bldg number!
““This is another smoking gun.”
“It’s the smoke, but not yet the gun.”
Smoke would infer the gun has been
fired. Wether it’s shooting blanks,
or the bullet missed it’s intended
target is the question.
If that one site you cite (Hey I’m a poet!) grinds them to dust that’s best. (Melting them works to!)
You’d be amazed what’s recoverable ! Maybe not all but something if something is beter then nothing ! It’s about how much time & money you want to put into it.
They just run a grinder along each platter. Enough to make recovery extremely difficult.
Another place had a shredder that you could toss whole phone books and even electronic components into. They would toss drives into it and what came out was no bigger than maybe 2-3”. But that was a heavy duty machine that I’m sure cost lots of $.
Back in the days of floppies a good way to kill them was put them in the lunch room toaster oven. I was told even the microwave, though I never tested that.
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