How Anonymous Are We?

[d8888]

1.eraser.sourceforge.net
Download eraser,use Peter Guttman's algorithm and shred your stuff 35 times.

2.Download Acronis Privacy Expert
If your are afraid of other traces(ex:Recently opened documents,swap files,system backups.......)

3.Download Acronis Drive cleanser or DBAN
Destroy whole hard drive!Or you can put your HD into micro oven ^_^


Question:Is "shredding" the best way to keep privacy?
Answer:BUTTZZZZZ,wrong answer.You should never let "critical data" written into your Hard drive.I recommend PGP 8.0,use PGP disk to protect your data with Daffie-Hoffman 2048 bits encryption!If emergency, you can shred the virtual disk file!

And sorry for my broken English,I live in Taiwan ^_^

Oh!forget to mention,shredding data with a lot of "00" is stupid,it is still recoverable,use Peter Guttman's algorithm(The strongest data destroying method)

[Cotton]

Format you HD, they will find nothing after a format.

And dont do what that guy said about burning you ILLEGAL data onto a cd thats just stupid, just format your hd forget about the shit you downloaded you can always redownload it.

But if they were coming after me i would just burn my HD just to be safe.

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by Cotton@16 December 2003 - 21:06
Format you HD you fools, they will find nothing after a format.

And dont do what that guy said about burning you ILLEGAL data onto a cd thats just stupid, just format your hd forget about the shit you downloaded you can always redownload it.

But if they were coming after me i would just burn my HD just to be safe.

formattting ur hdd wont destroy the data u fool

anybody knows that

easily recoverable

[Cotton]

Ur wrong!!

Format ur hd then try to recover.

It erases everything

[junkyardking]

Originally posted by Cotton@17 December 2003 - 06:28
Ur wrong!!

Format ur hd then try to recover.

It erases everything

You might not be able to recover the data, but a goverment agency can, there are even business which specialise in data recovery, actualy there was one guy who had a hard drive servely damaged in a house fire,
it had alot of business accounting on it he took it to one of these business and they recoved 70 - 80 % of the data, the only way to truely destroy the data is to destroy the hard drive itself, reformating and shreading dont cut it when it comes to the specialists.

[Cotton]

Just a question...

Can u completely remove ur HD from ur computer then put it back in, and it will still hold the information??

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by Cotton@16 December 2003 - 22:44
Just a question...

Can u completely remove ur HD from ur computer then put it back in, and it will still hold the information??

of course it will

what kind of question is this?

[RealitY]

Sheesh...

[d8888]

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it had alot of business accounting on it he took it to one of these business and they recoved 70 - 80 % of the data, the only way to truely destroy the data is to destroy the hard drive itself, reformating and shreading dont cut it when it comes to the specialists.
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I think it depend on the algorithm you select in shredding data.

Using a a pattern like "00 00 00 00 00...." is the worst way,while Peter Guttman's algorithm make it as possible to recover data by using 35 different random pattern.

According to a "business man" you said,data will be very difficult to recover if you overwrite it over 7 times.

The best method will be combining disk encryption and data shredding.

[james_bond_rulez]

Originally posted by d8888@17 December 2003 - 00:27
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it had alot of business accounting on it he took it to one of these business and they recoved 70 - 80 % of the data, the only way to truely destroy the data is to destroy the hard drive itself, reformating and shreading dont cut it when it comes to the specialists.
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I think it depend on the algorithm you select in shredding data.

Using a a pattern like "00 00 00 00 00...." is the worst way,while Peter Guttman's algorithm make it as possible to recover data by using 35 different random pattern.

According to a "business man" you said,data will be very difficult to recover if you overwrite it over 7 times.

The best method will be combining disk encryption and data shredding.

why dont you just nuke the hdd with a pipe bomb, it's easier on my eyes
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