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."

Comments

Re:speaking of wiping data

[Blkdeath]

"What are the best methods for removing almost any record of data?"

Have Chuck Norris give it a roundhouse kick.

-5 mod to any moderator giving this a negative mod! May Chuck Norris roundhouse kick your entire families for that! And remember; The "C-section" is named after Chuck Norris, for when he roundhouse kicked himself through his mothers stomach.

Re:speaking of wiping data

[lamasquerade]

Completely OT, but after reading your sig and noting your use of Wikipedia, I thought I should direct you to this. Interesting discussion of the two terms. Personally, I consider them virtually synonymous in practical usage, though patriotism usually denotes a less aggressive intent of the speaker. Certainly I would be more disturbed by someone who consciously considers themselves nationalist.

In any case, nations, countries, homelands or whatever - all arbitrary and all social constructions. I think we should love our fellow creatures, and base no significant opinion upon where they or we were born by chance.

Of course loving one's society/environment/landscape or whatever isn't terrible, I just don't see the point in arbitrarily using the borders of one's nation to define that area. For example, I live in Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania, Southern Hemisphere, etc. Which one to choose? Most people in around here are pretty patriotic (a recent phenomenon) and choose to take Australia. I probably like my suburb best of all those constructions as it is quite pleasant, but that's about it. Every other level of government is fairly disgusting, State and National.

But above all, I feel no brotherhood or kinship with anyone just because they live or were born anywhere in particular, and I can't see how any other position is reasonably defensible.