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Jon Hawkes
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:21:00 -
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One of our guys in work got burned by a bogus seller on Ebay some time ago, who sold him a faulty laptop sold under false pretences. However, the seller obviously forgot one of the prime rules of duplicity:
If you are going to sell your faulty laptop to an IT tech, make sure you format the hard drive first!
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Berak FalCheran
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:35:00 -
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oh man. truly classic.
NEW: ALL SIGS WITH EVE RELATED CONTENT
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Mactire
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Posted - 2006.05.24 13:52:00 -
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What a muppet.
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Flyyn
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Posted - 2006.05.24 14:04:00 -
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You need to post a warning there....I did not scroll down past the laptop to far....
Dont mind me I am just trying to catch up to DS and HK on the boards.... |
Moss Pharmacy
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Posted - 2006.05.24 14:28:00 -
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awesome XD -------------------------------
I am Laopwn lick my boots. ████ |
HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.05.24 14:55:00 -
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owned
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Drizit
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Posted - 2006.05.24 15:17:00 -
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Even formatting doesn't help. I recovered over 60% of my files after formatting the wrong drive by mistake.
There was a case a while ago where a pedophile was caught after he realised he was being traced and sold his computer complete with formatted drives. The guy who kindly bought it from his local paper ad was one of the officers involved in the operation that was watching him.
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Hans Roaming
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Posted - 2006.05.24 16:36:00 -
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Awesome, I *****ed up.
President Huzzah Federation
Play EVE on the hard setting, join us. |
hattifnatt
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Posted - 2006.05.24 17:04:00 -
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Pwned! 400x120@24000 Bytes Maximum please. -Capsicum ___ /o.0\ \___/ <-- This is Jigglypuff!! [ |
Raven Aure
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Posted - 2006.05.24 17:11:00 -
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IBTL.
But oh man that's amusing. ______________________ 106 days and still a hijack virgin... Cherry popped! ~kieron Kieron... I have some bad news... |
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.05.24 17:54:00 -
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Originally by: Drizit Even formatting doesn't help. I recovered over 60% of my files after formatting the wrong drive by mistake.
There was a case a while ago where a pedophile was caught after he realised he was being traced and sold his computer complete with formatted drives. The guy who kindly bought it from his local paper ad was one of the officers involved in the operation that was watching him.
you can blank them, you just have to write over them *repeatedly*. It takes a couple of days to fully blank a 200gb SATA 7200k RPM hard drive to military standards.
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Raven Aure
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Posted - 2006.05.24 18:07:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing
Originally by: Drizit Even formatting doesn't help. I recovered over 60% of my files after formatting the wrong drive by mistake.
There was a case a while ago where a pedophile was caught after he realised he was being traced and sold his computer complete with formatted drives. The guy who kindly bought it from his local paper ad was one of the officers involved in the operation that was watching him.
you can blank them, you just have to write over them *repeatedly*. It takes a couple of days to fully blank a 200gb SATA 7200k RPM hard drive to military standards.
Or, a sledgehammer, some bricks, some old road signs, a chopped up fallen tree, some plastic hose-piping and a hairdryer.
I'll leave you to figure out that one! ______________________ 106 days and still a hijack virgin... Cherry popped! ~kieron Kieron... I have some bad news... |
Novarei
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Posted - 2006.05.24 18:51:00 -
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pure genius
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Nicholas Barker
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Posted - 2006.05.24 19:51:00 -
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wouldn't installing a load of games on it till the hard drive is full, then formatting it a second time totaly clear it? -----------------
Where'd me pod go? |
Krystian
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Posted - 2006.05.24 19:52:00 -
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Divine justice! pwned!! __________________________________________________ Ceo Krystian The Blood Moon Horde
Corps can also join too! |
HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.05.24 19:58:00 -
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Originally by: Raven Aure Or, a sledgehammer, some bricks, some old road signs, a chopped up fallen tree, some plastic hose-piping and a hairdryer.
I'll leave you to figure out that one!
i would have just burned it if i didn't want to keep the thing. On the other hand, I don't have hard-drives to burn (look how clever that was), and ofc course, if you are a pedophile trying to hide his perversion, the fact your PC had no hard-drive in and your fire had a suspicious hard-drive motif going on might set off alarm bells for the police (assuming of course you aren't in london: the met would just shoot your next door neighbour for being a suicide bomber)
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Raven Aure
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Posted - 2006.05.24 20:05:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing
Originally by: Raven Aure Or, a sledgehammer, some bricks, some old road signs, a chopped up fallen tree, some plastic hose-piping and a hairdryer.
I'll leave you to figure out that one!
i would have just burned it if i didn't want to keep the thing. On the other hand, I don't have hard-drives to burn (look how clever that was), and ofc course, if you are a pedophile trying to hide his perversion, the fact your PC had no hard-drive in and your fire had a suspicious hard-drive motif going on might set off alarm bells for the police (assuming of course you aren't in london: the met would just shoot your next door neighbour for being a suicide bomber)
I was actually suggesting building a blast furnace
Not that that's one of the things I get up to at the weekend.....
Between being an IT consultant (and thus having a number of HDDs lying around) and living in what may loosely described as the countryside there shouldn't be a problem. That is if I had something like that to hide in the first place. ______________________ 106 days and still a hijack virgin... Cherry popped! ~kieron Kieron... I have some bad news... |
Delwynndwn Siele
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Posted - 2006.05.24 20:47:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing
Originally by: Drizit Even formatting doesn't help. I recovered over 60% of my files after formatting the wrong drive by mistake.
There was a case a while ago where a pedophile was caught after he realised he was being traced and sold his computer complete with formatted drives. The guy who kindly bought it from his local paper ad was one of the officers involved in the operation that was watching him.
you can blank them, you just have to write over them *repeatedly*. It takes a couple of days to fully blank a 200gb SATA 7200k RPM hard drive to military standards.
Darik's Boot and Nuke
Wipes data, fills up with junk data, wipes again, rinse, wash, repeat how ever many times you want.
Had to use this once, since there was company related stuff on a laptop HD that needed to be wiped. Used the American DoD 5220-22.M method, 2 passes I think. Though there's another method that seems like it would be more effective. Don't remember which one it was for sure, but I think it may have been the Gutmann wipe.
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Frank Horrigan
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Posted - 2006.05.25 03:09:00 -
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someone explain to me technicaly or mechanicaly how the data can be recovered after a few reformats...
Im extremely curious..
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Clementina
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Posted - 2006.05.25 03:24:00 -
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Edited by: Clementina on 25/05/2006 03:26:46
Originally by: Frank Horrigan someone explain to me technicaly or mechanicaly how the data can be recovered after a few reformats...
Im extremely curious..
What reformating a disk does is erases the file table on the disk and replaces it with a file table with no records, and of the desired format. It does not change any actual data on the harddrive. Becasue of this, if you know what you are doing, it is possible to look through the hard drive, and reconstitute anything that was on it, but was hidden by the reformat. Your operating system cannot do this, because it needs the file table to determine where a file begins and ends (and sometimes what kind of file it is, but an application can do that just fine). If you can get this information some other way, or just guess, you can read a reformated harddrive.
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FireFoxx80
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Posted - 2006.05.25 07:19:00 -
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Originally by: Frank Horrigan someone explain to me technicaly or mechanicaly how the data can be recovered after a few reformats...
Im extremely curious..
Think about taking a book, then ripping out the index and contents pages. On a HDD, the index is king(tm), so if you remove that then the disk effectively looks empty.
Only it isnt.
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.05.25 08:43:00 -
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Originally by: Frank Horrigan someone explain to me technicaly or mechanicaly how the data can be recovered after a few reformats...
Im extremely curious..
Deleting doesn't remove data: it just marks that area of the hard-drive as "blank" so nothing there is read, and more data is written over the top whenever it is needed. Unless it has been written over, it is fairly easy to change it back from deleted to normal data.
I get a bit more sketchy here, but i believe when the disk writes over, it doesn't always run exactly straight, so it leaves traces of old data to either side, meaning you have to write over it repeatedly (hence the couple of days figure i gave earlier) to completely cover the old data and make it completely unrecoverable no matter how determined the attempt.
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Scorpyn
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Posted - 2006.05.25 10:01:00 -
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As for how to securely delete the info on a hard drive, the cheapest way would probably be to use shread (a small disk wiping program available on most linux distros).
Burning the hard drive would make it unusable, but it'd still be possible to recover a lot of the data if you have a lot of money. ____________________ 45545555555555555555 |
Kouran Darkblade
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Posted - 2006.05.25 10:42:00 -
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Edited by: Kouran Darkblade on 25/05/2006 10:45:39 Edited by: Kouran Darkblade on 25/05/2006 10:42:59 Not sure but would that be this http://amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/ if so inform me, even tho im sure someone else noticed the same thread i didnt want to read aall the replies so if this has already been posted then here it is again
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Xoria Krint
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Posted - 2006.05.25 15:19:00 -
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Hahaha ----
My Movie: Insane World |
Raven Aure
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Posted - 2006.05.25 15:20:00 -
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Originally by: Kouran Darkblade Edited by: Kouran Darkblade on 25/05/2006 10:45:39 Edited by: Kouran Darkblade on 25/05/2006 10:42:59 Not sure but would that be this http://amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/ if so inform me, even tho im sure someone else noticed the same thread i didnt want to read aall the replies so if this has already been posted then here it is again
Uh... yes... and indeed the exact same link was in the OP. I'm ______________________ 106 days and still a hijack virgin... Cherry popped! ~kieron Kieron... I have some bad news... |
DirtyHarry
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Posted - 2006.05.25 17:46:00 -
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Edited by: DirtyHarry on 25/05/2006 17:46:42 omg... PRICELESS,
foot fetish + ghey **** + pictures of womans legs on subway (WTF?) + rl pic + email account access + bank details = omgwtfpwnedirlimotbhlol
-Havo ------------------- DirtyHarry ~ Havocide - yarr tbh "Take from the rich and put it on eBay" - zincol |
Jenny Spitfire
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Posted - 2006.05.25 18:08:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing
Originally by: Frank Horrigan someone explain to me technicaly or mechanicaly how the data can be recovered after a few reformats...
Im extremely curious..
Deleting doesn't remove data: it just marks that area of the hard-drive as "blank" so nothing there is read, and more data is written over the top whenever it is needed. Unless it has been written over, it is fairly easy to change it back from deleted to normal data.
I get a bit more sketchy here, but i believe when the disk writes over, it doesn't always run exactly straight, so it leaves traces of old data to either side, meaning you have to write over it repeatedly (hence the couple of days figure i gave earlier) to completely cover the old data and make it completely unrecoverable no matter how determined the attempt.
write 0, tbh. ---------------- RecruitMe@NOINT!
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Raven Aure
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Posted - 2006.05.31 02:00:00 -
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BBC Linkage
Iiiiinteresting..... ______________________ 106 days and still a hijack virgin... Cherry popped! ~kieron
Hadron Enterprises |
danneh
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Posted - 2006.05.31 05:09:00 -
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hahahahahah Contraband Inc |
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