On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Chris Walters wrote:
I hate to tell you this, but the F.B.I. Computer Forensics Laboratory
has successfully recovered data from a drive, where the platters were
shot multiple times with a shotgun.
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that wouldn't surprise me, but is there a reference for it?
i would think the hard part would be finding all (enough?) of the pieces.
was the platter actually shot? or just the case?
The only sure way to make sure no one can recover your data is to put it
into a blast furnace (this would be hot enough to melt the whole thing
into a puddle, and would cause substantial mixing between the
ferro-magnetic alloy and the titanium internal structure.
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even then, some smart-ass will eventually come along and demonstrate how
data can be recovered, even from the lump of metal ;)
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