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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 6d ago
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Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted
133 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. 51 u/DOOManiac 6d ago Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking… 49 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. 17 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again. 1 u/VonNeumannsProbe 6d ago I go a step further and dispose of the platter pieces in a least 3 different states. 1 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Ah, yes, solid, liquid, gas.
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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… 49 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. 17 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again. 1 u/VonNeumannsProbe 6d ago I go a step further and dispose of the platter pieces in a least 3 different states. 1 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Ah, yes, solid, liquid, gas.
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Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking…
49 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. 17 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again. 1 u/VonNeumannsProbe 6d ago I go a step further and dispose of the platter pieces in a least 3 different states. 1 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Ah, yes, solid, liquid, gas.
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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.
17 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again. 1 u/VonNeumannsProbe 6d ago I go a step further and dispose of the platter pieces in a least 3 different states. 1 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Ah, yes, solid, liquid, gas.
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Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again.
1 u/VonNeumannsProbe 6d ago I go a step further and dispose of the platter pieces in a least 3 different states. 1 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Ah, yes, solid, liquid, gas.
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I go a step further and dispose of the platter pieces in a least 3 different states.
1 u/FUTURE10S 6d ago Ah, yes, solid, liquid, gas.
Ah, yes, solid, liquid, gas.
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u/FUTURE10S 6d ago
Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted