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[log in to unmask]>, at 15:39:53 on Fri, 8 Dec
2006, Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]> writes
>There are times when you simply cannot use wiping techniques - the most
>usual of which is if the disk cannot be recognised by the operating
>system because it is banjaxed badly enough. Yet the data remains on
>it, and is wholly accessible to simple forensic techniques.
>
>What then?
You can unscrew (or unclip) the top of most HDDs, and I doubt the normal
forensic techniques would be practicable if you tipped a quantity of
something suitable inside. Paint would probably do (you'd have to clean
it off all the surfaces before the magnetic recovery process could get
close enough). Chances are that unless you were a super high profile
target (in which case you have plenty of other more serious problems on
your hands) that anyone would move on to an easier-to-recover disc.
imho, most of the stories of "extreme" data recovery involve a damaged
*computer*, or damaged HDD *electronics*, but which has an intact set of
platters that are typically protected inside a strong cast aluminium
shell.
--
Roland Perry
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