[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[Robert Heaven]

I agree... be paranoid. I work for a large bank and you would be surprised how many unscrupulous people go through our dumpsters looking for ways to get access to our customers' accounts.


-----Original Message-----
From: James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: aaron at pd.org; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 1:10 am
Subject: Re: [ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive



On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 00:25 -0400, aaron wrote:

> :-) Disregarding that concern over someone tracking your
> dead drive, snagging it from a trashpile, resurrecting the
> device by tediously replacing the electronics with working
> duplicates and then forensically recovering your prawn
> collection is just a tad on the paranoid side... ;-)

I've already eaten my "prawn" collection. 

I leeched my "pr0n" collection off a hard drive I scavenged from aaron's
trash can...

To bad it was from an _amiga_ and it was all ASCII pr0n!

Any prawns recovered from a trash pile are probably inedible.

   :}

On a serious side, I know several situations where data recovery from a
dead hard drive would be problem. HIPAA and my doctor clients come to
mind immediately.
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