Well the OP is not trying to hide his data from the Men in Black so why should he take measures to defend against these super-top-secret data recovery techniques?
Noob. l33t users browse with wget and cat. Yes we take in the code as it flies past our eyeballs at high speed. In fact, we don't even see the code, just blonde, brunette, redhead...
The reason is they have metric shit-tons of money, enemies with access to bleeding-edge tech (and shit-tons of money) and would rather err on the side of caution. Media destruction is a formality, 1 overwrite makes data unrecoverable:
Well this tech could be used in a stationary power plant. Just pure dihydrogen monoxide comes back out, it's just a very complicated form of solar power.
Which means it will probably be less efficient than PV or solar-thermal:-(
Pfft yeah right. The Average Joes will probably be like "Cool! Now all my Facebook photos are tagged automatically and I can see all the pics my friends show up in! This is the best thing since texting and driving!"
Actually taking the fossil fuels out of the ground is exactly like shipping it from Venus as far as the biosphere is concerned. On a terrestrial scale, yes it's part of a cycle, but that cycle is so slow that it's basically irrelevant - we can't rely on it to sequester carbon in an amount of time that's meaningful to human civilization.
I really hope the rainforests are gobbling up CO2 faster, that would be great, we need all the help we can get.
Unless these disks are inoperative (and you say using DBAN is an option so I guess they aren't), don't physically destroy them! One overwrite with any data - ones, zeroes or random - is enough to make the data unrecoverable on a hard drive made in roughly the last 20 years, according to US NIST (just be sure to use a tool that overwrites bad sectors as well). You can do two if you're super-paranoid. If you want to do more than that, seek professional help - psychiatric help, not IT help.
Then give the wiped disks to someone who could use them.
A brilliant system, all the lower 99%ers will be looking at the top guys, spending money on app developer subscriptions and saying "with enough hard work, I can be just like them!" - which is actually true with software sales, unlike real life, so I guess there's nothing wrong about it apart from the illusion of a more even wealth spread.
And people resort to writing trade secrets down on paper? Who knew there were so many luddites at ACM?!
It's a smart thing to do if you don't know how to secure and/or airgap your computers. Better than the idiots keeping trade secrets in a place accessible from a secretary's Windows machine *cough*RSA*cough*
Another reason we will someday need Pirate Source software. Software under a GPL-like license with anonymous maintainers, so that it will be impossible to sue for patent infringment, DMCA/ACTA violation, or whatever.
The Democrats aren't saints, but at this point they're the only party that ever seems interested in stepping in to help the voters out against corporate interests.
I wouldn't say that...they haven't killed ACTA with fire so they don't put people before corporations.
They do slow the GOP down a bit, I'll give them that.
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Some places in Europe do this. In fact they've removed some intersection lights entirely, turning them into "anarchy zones."
Flywheels are resource intensive?
Well the OP is not trying to hide his data from the Men in Black so why should he take measures to defend against these super-top-secret data recovery techniques?
Good move on the plugin confirmation, I've been saying Firefox needed that for years.
Noob. l33t users browse with wget and cat. Yes we take in the code as it flies past our eyeballs at high speed. In fact, we don't even see the code, just blonde, brunette, redhead...
You should try it, it's actually pretty good.
This is tinfoil-hat stuff now. Those are the same recommendations given to US government agencies. Also see this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence#Feasibility_of_recovering_overwritten_data
The reason is they have metric shit-tons of money, enemies with access to bleeding-edge tech (and shit-tons of money) and would rather err on the side of caution. Media destruction is a formality, 1 overwrite makes data unrecoverable:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_rev1.pdf
Or use flywheel storage, or a water reservoir, or a battery...there are many simpler forms of energy storage.
Well this tech could be used in a stationary power plant. Just pure dihydrogen monoxide comes back out, it's just a very complicated form of solar power.
Which means it will probably be less efficient than PV or solar-thermal :-(
If it's a lot cheaper it could still be useful.
if it could handle the slashdotting....
Hot server pounded all night by gang of horny geek studs (5 stars)
She should get some of those .50cal cartoon guns (Desert eagle?) and take pics of herself in sexy nude poses with them :-P=
Hey she said she's a porn star, it's legitimate career advice.
Until I can do a Laughing Man on other people's cameras, I can't keep pics of myself off of Facebook (and other websites), unfortunately.
I'm still fighting it.
It's a lonely existence...
Pfft yeah right. The Average Joes will probably be like "Cool! Now all my Facebook photos are tagged automatically and I can see all the pics my friends show up in! This is the best thing since texting and driving!"
Facebook: Gotcha!
Oh jeez please say you're not advocating racial profiling so I don't have to go through my usual rant.
But I'll fire a warning shot across your bow: Anders Behring Breivik.
If true that would vastly improve my opinion of Google.
Actually taking the fossil fuels out of the ground is exactly like shipping it from Venus as far as the biosphere is concerned. On a terrestrial scale, yes it's part of a cycle, but that cycle is so slow that it's basically irrelevant - we can't rely on it to sequester carbon in an amount of time that's meaningful to human civilization.
I really hope the rainforests are gobbling up CO2 faster, that would be great, we need all the help we can get.
Unless these disks are inoperative (and you say using DBAN is an option so I guess they aren't), don't physically destroy them! One overwrite with any data - ones, zeroes or random - is enough to make the data unrecoverable on a hard drive made in roughly the last 20 years, according to US NIST (just be sure to use a tool that overwrites bad sectors as well). You can do two if you're super-paranoid. If you want to do more than that, seek professional help - psychiatric help, not IT help.
Then give the wiped disks to someone who could use them.
A brilliant system, all the lower 99%ers will be looking at the top guys, spending money on app developer subscriptions and saying "with enough hard work, I can be just like them!" - which is actually true with software sales, unlike real life, so I guess there's nothing wrong about it apart from the illusion of a more even wealth spread.
And people resort to writing trade secrets down on paper? Who knew there were so many luddites at ACM?!
It's a smart thing to do if you don't know how to secure and/or airgap your computers. Better than the idiots keeping trade secrets in a place accessible from a secretary's Windows machine *cough*RSA*cough*
Another reason we will someday need Pirate Source software. Software under a GPL-like license with anonymous maintainers, so that it will be impossible to sue for patent infringment, DMCA/ACTA violation, or whatever.
tools are in flux
New to computers eh?
The Democrats aren't saints, but at this point they're the only party that ever seems interested in stepping in to help the voters out against corporate interests.
I wouldn't say that...they haven't killed ACTA with fire so they don't put people before corporations.
They do slow the GOP down a bit, I'll give them that.