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Memories of a Media Card
twistedmoney99 writes "Anyone who has upgraded their digital camera probably has a few older, incompatible media cards lying around — so why not post them on Ebay? Well, if you do, be sure to properly wipe them because the digital voyeurs are watching. Seth Fogie at InformIT.com purchased a bunch of used cards from Ebay and found recoverable data on most of them. Using the freely available PhotoRec application, he was able to extract pictures, movies, and more from apparently formatted cards. The picture is clear — wipe anything that can store digital data before getting rid of it."
It adds to the value on auction sites. A lot of people are willing to pay a fortune to see images of my dick.
I had a 4-month-old 250gb hard drive die of heatstroke within a fanless drive enclosure. The drive had, shall we say, material of an "educational" nature. (ahem)
Anyway, I didn't want to release said material to the general public at [insert HD manufacturer here], so I abandoned any warranty recovery and just physically destroyed the drive. So much for that $100.
If it's data you care about someone else getting a hold of, I would recommend using Thermite. It's a wonderful, all purpose, cleanser of just about everything.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laziness is the father.
"What are the best methods for removing almost any record of data?"
Have Chuck Norris give it a roundhouse kick.
> Its man page is also the only one I know of that uses the phrases "rising totalitarianism", "Department of Homeland Security", and "THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS THING TO DO".
Doesn't "man woman" also use those phrases? And for good reason, too...
Bols, I don't get it: are you actually saying there's NOT ENOUGH randomness out there?
Here, have some of mine: ldjaofp9 bpm ]ak e]-07
Shhhh, don't let the christians hear that
Modern storage systems either forget what they're supposed to remember, just when you need it the most ... or they remember it long after it is best forgotten.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Maybe that's why they laid me off two weeks ago. :-(
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that a prison 'manages freedom'
I'd just keep the damn thing. You know that as soon as you sell it you'll have a desperate need for it. That's just how the world works.
Ahh.. Hard disks - With all the above posts, I thought you said hard dicks for a second there.
Lindsay Blanton
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No, this one is a copy someone left on a flash card sold on ebay.
today is spelling optional day.
For top-level classification their specification to ensure data destruction remains to this day in the belly of an incinerator.
Wow, even the specification is so secret that it was destroyed immediately? That's f'n hardcore!One question, though: how do they know how to destroy data properly, if the specification's been destroyed?
May contain traces of nut.
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