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

Jsparksaa at cs.com Jsparksaa at cs.com
Wed Apr 4 16:10:34 GMT 2007


  And I wonder how long it takes a team to reassemble a 20 gallon bag of shredded paper.  (cross-cut . . . )

Jim


Nemo <wombat at nemo.house.cx> wrote:

>
>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
>>
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