[clug] PC Forensics / Fun [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Nemo]

How many kb does it take to incriminate someone?

How many mb can you fit onto one square mm of a modern drive? 
(remember folks, pi*r^2 is surface area formular :)


Besides, as noted before, after a simple overwrite of data (or few if you're
paranoid), then data recovery requries specialised equipment and serious dollarbucks. 

5 Minutes with a blowtorch is probably easier,
cheaper and more effective than grinding to dust.
(this is totally speculation of course, I'm not that paranoid :)

.../Nemo


On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 20:10:19 +1000, "Mike Carden" <mike.carden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Roppola, Antti - BRS <Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au> wrote:
> 
>> If the media has got really nifty stuff on it, they use one-way Brownian
>> encryption[1].
> 
>> [1] Throw the drive into an iron smelter and melt it.
> 
> 
> I seem to recall something about chopping disk platters into very,
> very small pieces. The pieces need to be small enough to fit through
> the holes in a sieve. As the security level goes up, the sieve hole
> size goes down. So for super ultra top mega crazy secret secret,
> you're supposed to pretty well turn the platters into dust.
> 
> --
> MC
>