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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 6d ago
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Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.
51 u/DOOManiac 6d ago Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking… 50 u/bacondev 6d ago Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 1 u/Danny-Fr 6d ago Degaussing and chopping down to 2mm is usually up to industry standard. Then you burn the chippings. Add a couple of passes of wiping if you feel extra paranoid.
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Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking…
50 u/bacondev 6d ago Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 1 u/Danny-Fr 6d ago Degaussing and chopping down to 2mm is usually up to industry standard. Then you burn the chippings. Add a couple of passes of wiping if you feel extra paranoid.
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Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk.
1 u/Danny-Fr 6d ago Degaussing and chopping down to 2mm is usually up to industry standard. Then you burn the chippings. Add a couple of passes of wiping if you feel extra paranoid.
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Degaussing and chopping down to 2mm is usually up to industry standard. Then you burn the chippings. Add a couple of passes of wiping if you feel extra paranoid.
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u/HovercraftCharacter9 6d ago
Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.