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RE: Fucking Governmnent...
March 13, 2012 at 2:11 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2012 at 2:14 am by Rokcet Scientist.)
The problem is that Joe Blow the user cannot be sure what is and what isn't recoverable from his HD. Especially when his PC is one of an army of millions of 'zombies', infected PCs that, unbeknownst to their owners, perform all kinds of crazy, illegal shit, remotely controlled by hackers.
So next time you go through Customs and/or the TSA, who knows what they could find on your laptop.
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RE: Fucking Governmnent...
March 13, 2012 at 2:42 am
Your TSA can't find a terrorist with a bomb strapped to his balls, I don't think they'll have a fucking shit show of finding illicit material by collating fragmented data on a hard disk.
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March 13, 2012 at 8:48 am
Be my guest to test that assumption.
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March 13, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Like I said, either use reliable file deletion software, or delete the offending material, empty the recycle bin, transfer several GB of innocuous files to your computer to overwrite any empty sectors, defragment, delete the extra files from your computer, defragment again, transfer the several GB of files back to your computer, delete them again, etc. Eventually the data will get overwritten.
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RE: Fucking Governmnent...
March 13, 2012 at 1:13 pm
(March 13, 2012 at 1:07 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Like I said, either use reliable file deletion software, or delete the offending material, empty the recycle bin, transfer several GB of innocuous files to your computer to overwrite any empty sectors, defragment, delete the extra files from your computer, defragment again, transfer the several GB of files back to your computer, delete them again, etc. Eventually the data will get overwritten.
This is overkill.
All you need to do is delete your data via a secure deletion method. The de-facto standard would probably be the 7-pass method, which is implemented in numerous deletion programs. I think it's based on Bruce Schneier's algorithm, which writes 1's over all the data, then 0's, and then 5 passes of random values. Good luck getting any data back after that.
Of course, for the uber paranoid, there is the Gutmann method.
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RE: Fucking Governmnent...
March 13, 2012 at 1:26 pm
(March 12, 2012 at 3:19 pm)Atheist Anarchist Wrote: (March 12, 2012 at 3:09 pm)frankiej Wrote: Umm, you obviously did not understand. He thought he was downloading music or something, but instead got some nice, classy, kiddy porn.
Whether he was telling the truth I don't know, but I don't think they should have arrested him outright. A little look at his computer would have revealed all.
Sorry, I don't defend child molesters. You can't download music and get child porn...it doesn't happen. For one thing, music files end in .wma and you can't have images / videos in music. What I don't think you realise is that ALL paedophiles use this excuse, but it makes no sense.
Have you ever downloaded a ZIP / RAR file and found that it contained something that you didn't expect?
I have.
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RE: Fucking Governmnent...
March 13, 2012 at 1:31 pm
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(March 13, 2012 at 2:42 am)theVOID Wrote: Your TSA can't find a terrorist with a bomb strapped to his balls, I don't think they'll have a fucking shit show of finding illicit material by collating fragmented data on a hard disk.
That's because we Americans have abnormally large balls (which, incidentally, are also made of steel, completely spoofing metal detectors at every turn), so it's difficult to tell where the balls end and the bomb begins from a sidescan...It all looks perfectly normal to the guy behind the screen.
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RE: Fucking Governmnent...
March 13, 2012 at 1:43 pm
(March 13, 2012 at 2:11 am)Rokcet Scientist Wrote: The problem is that Joe Blow the user cannot be sure what is and what isn't recoverable from his HD.
Judging by some of the posts in this thread, Joe Blow user doesn't have any idea what's even ON his HD.
But I suppose that was your point. 
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RE: Fucking Governmnent...
March 15, 2012 at 5:53 am
(March 13, 2012 at 1:31 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (March 13, 2012 at 2:42 am)theVOID Wrote: Your TSA can't find a terrorist with a bomb strapped to his balls, I don't think they'll have a fucking shit show of finding illicit material by collating fragmented data on a hard disk.
That's because we Americans have abnormally large balls (which, incidentally, are also made of steel, completely spoofing metal detectors at every turn), so it's difficult to tell where the balls end and the bomb begins from a sidescan...It all looks perfectly normal to the guy behind the screen.
Hahaha! 
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RE: Fucking Governmnent...
March 15, 2012 at 10:05 am
Wow everyone is getting paranoid about what's on their hard-drive that they don't know about now. It's pretty funny. I have to admit that I have some adult nudes....from....the internet.
>_>
I always wonder if they're photoshopped though. 
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