I believe the proper procedure is to do multiple pass zeroing of the platter, disassemble, break THEN melt On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:12 PM, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Shaun, > Did you see the photos of the Gaurdian reporters destroying their hard > disks? This was done on the advice of GCHQ and the I.T. manager at the > Gaurdian. They used drills and broke up the hard disks on their > computers, which contained the "secret" information from Snowden. GCHQ > found this method very acceptable, as did the law courts, which are there > to protect our human rights; apparently so did the Guardian. Talk about > propaganda...the people on this list know that you can't destroy > information on a hard disk, by breaking it up into little bits... You have > to melt it. > > But there you are, where would we be without myths and legends in our > society. > ATB > Dougie. > > > On 11/12/14 21:03, Shaun O'Connor wrote: > > indeed a tunnelling electron microscope is very useful in forensic data > analysts. the only true way of totally and utterly destroying any > electronic trails would be to completely pulverize every hard disk that the > emails might possibly have landed on and that's probably a lot of hard > disks!!!. > On 11/12/2014 20:42, doug wrote: > > Apparently, part of the "enhanced interrogation techniques...i.e. Torture" > was the use of guns to the head and hand drills...And those methods of > interrogation were ignored. It gets more like Hollywood fantasies the more > i get into it. The guy who was being tortured had already given > information and agreed to give more...none of it was an "immediate > threat". They, the CIA officers who were the interrogators, and who hadn't > received training but had been specially selected...their personal records > showed abuse, anger management problems and even records of sexual abuse, > hadn't received proper training. Some of the other CIA officers, started > to feel sick and tried to report what was going on to the higher ups. They > were told to continue... > > Pretty damning really...still, it is probably all lies...made up by the > Democrats. Lots of this stuff is gleaned from internal emails in the CIA. > Funny thing about emails and storing them...they are very difficult to get > rid of apparently. Deleting them isn't an option, because forensic > software can still detect them, and then the person who deleted them can > get into deeper shit. Perhaps it is a good idea after all, to record and > store everything and awthing on the internet. > ATB > Dougie. > > > > -- > * PRIVACY IS A BASIC RIGHT - NOT A CONCESSION * > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/when-time-comes-we-need-be-ready-fight-tpps-secret-anti-user-agenda > > >