We've talked in the past about secure data erasure, using things like DBAN
which use wiping algorithms approved by the US DoD. The BBC news website is
carrying a story today encouraging people to get physical and smash their
drives. Now, whilst I can see that putting a hard disk that has come
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:38:41PM +, Dr Adam Trickett wrote:
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2009, Simon Huggins wrote:
I have the same results as Chris Smith but with gpg 1.4.6.
It's very odd that different people see the good/bad results inverted.
Simon's email cam up as Not enough information on
Tony Whitmore wrote:
We've talked in the past about secure data erasure, using things like DBAN
which use wiping algorithms approved by the US DoD. The BBC news website is
carrying a story today encouraging people to get physical and smash their
drives. Now, whilst I can see that putting a
2009/1/8 Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com
Tony Whitmore wrote:
We've talked in the past about secure data erasure, using things like
DBAN
which use wiping algorithms approved by the US DoD. The BBC news website
is
carrying a story today encouraging people to get physical and smash
Hi Damian, please could you add me to the list of possible attendees
at this and future meetings at Southampton.
Please could you also add my MAC 00:12:F0:49:E8:E1
thanks!
victor
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I decided to be clever today and encrypt my Eee PC's home partition.
I followed [1] to copy all my files correctly, and [2] for creating and
automounting an encrypted home partition.
However, now when I try to log in, I get:
login: PAM Failure, aborting: Critical error - immediate abort
Looking
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:34 +, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi Damian, please could you add me to the list of possible attendees
at this and future meetings at Southampton.
If this is going to be an ongoing issue at Soton, why not just give
security a list of LUG members. That'll keep them
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:17:09AM +, Tony Whitmore wrote:
is it really worth getting people to attack their hard drives with
hammers? (Never mind the Health Safety implications!)
No, but I suppose we need some sort of education so that people
understand that a hard drive is probably
2009/1/8 Rob Smith r...@rob-smith.co.uk:
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:34 +, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi Damian, please could you add me to the list of possible attendees
at this and future meetings at Southampton.
If this is going to be an ongoing issue at Soton, why not just give
security a
2009/1/8 Rob Smith r...@rob-smith.co.uk
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:34 +, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi Damian, please could you add me to the list of possible attendees
at this and future meetings at Southampton.
If this is going to be an ongoing issue at Soton, why not just give
security
The best way I have found is to take a gas blow torch to the platters if
you are that paranoid.
Or mayme
I was working on a project many years ago in Germany for the Army. One
of the computers HDD crashed. It was a fixed head dual RK05 replacement
(2.4Mb) ans was in the front passenger seat of
Damn, must have had the CO's pron stash on it ;)
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Rob Smith wote:
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:34 +, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi Damian, please could you add me to the list of possible attendees
at this and future meetings at Southampton.
If this is going to be an ongoing issue at Soton, why not just give
security a list of LUG members.
Stephen Rowles wrote:
Getting the correct circuit board, when it has been disposed of separately
from the drive, will be hard and with a physically damaged platter you'd
need to use some seriously specialist tools to even begin to start getting
the data back... and then you'd discover I'd
Rob Smith wote:
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 11:34 +, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi Damian, please could you add me to the list of possible attendees
at this and future meetings at Southampton.
If this is going to be an ongoing issue at Soton, why not just give
security a list of LUG members.
I
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 12:55 +, Jacqui Caren wrote:
[snip]
Given the BBC's record I expect a lobbying backhander from the disk manuf
association
for this article - after all the BBC has to make money these days and
harrassing people
who do not want to watch TV is no longer working as
Rob Smith wrote:
A lifetime subscription to Which? for the free advertising perhaps.
Perhaps :-)
Jacqui
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On Thursday 08 January 2009 15:01:59 Jacqui Caren wrote:
Rob Smith wrote:
A lifetime subscription to Which? for the free advertising perhaps.
Perhaps :-)
Jacqui
So the hardware manufacturer lobby the media (as in TV, Radio not hardware)
saying destroy all hard disks once you have used it.
Victor Churchill wrote:
So maybe I'm being the opposite of ultra paranoid (infra paranoid?) -
I keep my disk platters as coasters. They soon collect enough
scratches from tea/coffee mugs that re reading them would be non
trivial.
This is also my approach. The magnets are fun to play with
- Original Message -
From: Mat Grove m...@grove.me.uk
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hard disk destruction
Victor Churchill wrote:
So maybe I'm being the opposite of ultra paranoid
2009/1/8 Mat Grove m...@grove.me.uk:
Victor Churchill wrote:
So maybe I'm being the opposite of ultra paranoid (infra paranoid?) -
I keep my disk platters as coasters. They soon collect enough
scratches from tea/coffee mugs that re reading them would be non
trivial.
This is also my
On Thursday 08 Jan 2009, Simon Huggins wrote:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:38:41PM +, Dr Adam Trickett wrote:
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2009, Simon Huggins wrote:
I have the same results as Chris Smith but with gpg 1.4.6.
It's very odd that different people see the good/bad results inverted.
2009/1/8 Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com
2009/1/8 Mat Grove m...@grove.me.uk:
Victor Churchill wrote:
So maybe I'm being the opposite of ultra paranoid (infra paranoid?) -
I keep my disk platters as coasters. They soon collect enough
scratches from tea/coffee mugs that re
Stephen Rowles step...@rowles.org.uk wrote:
Getting the correct circuit board, when it has
been disposed of separately from the drive, will
be hard
but not impossible.
Smaller data-recovery firms are frequent
advertisers for, and purchasers of, old HDs,
purely for their controller PCBs.
Rob Malpass l...@getiton.myzen.co.uk wrote:
But another question is - if you want to
physically destroy the drive unit - what's the
safest method?The platters themselves seem
to be so well sealed that presumably a well
positioned drill hole or two would be the
simplest approach (with
Victor Churchill wrote:
So maybe I'm being the opposite of ultra paranoid (infra paranoid?) -
I keep my disk platters as coasters. They soon collect enough
scratches from tea/coffee mugs that re reading them would be non
trivial.
This is also my approach. The magnets are fun to play with
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