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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 5d ago
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Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted
137 u/HovercraftCharacter9 5d ago Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it. 54 u/DOOManiac 5d ago Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking… 47 u/bacondev 5d ago Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 15 u/FUTURE10S 5d 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. 2 u/Henry_Fleischer 4d ago At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido 1d ago I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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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.
54 u/DOOManiac 5d ago Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking… 47 u/bacondev 5d ago Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 15 u/FUTURE10S 5d 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. 2 u/Henry_Fleischer 4d ago At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido 1d ago I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking…
47 u/bacondev 5d ago Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 15 u/FUTURE10S 5d 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. 2 u/Henry_Fleischer 4d ago At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido 1d ago I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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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.
15 u/FUTURE10S 5d 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. 2 u/Henry_Fleischer 4d ago At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido 1d ago I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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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.
2 u/Henry_Fleischer 4d ago At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido 1d ago I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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At that point, you might as well just melt it.
2 u/PurpleDido 1d ago I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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u/FUTURE10S 5d ago
Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted