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> Carmack intentionally destroyed data on his computer after he got notice of this litigation and right after he researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive
by jonknee 10y ago
> Carmack intentionally destroyed data on his computer after he got notice of this litigation and right after he researched on Google how to wipe a hard drive
Somehow I think John knows how to wipe a drive...
- Ygg2 10y agoEvery dev knows how to wipe a drive. Buy an identical drive. Throw old drive into the incinerator.
- rockdoe 10y agoI didn't know this but I do now.
- rasz_pl 10y agoLack of history is a clue system was wiped or reinstalled from scratch. Its very difficult to make windows appear to be an old actively used install. Encase (or new software, I havent done forensic for >6 years now) will tell you everything about timestamps and what that means.
- Ygg2 10y agoI was joking. But honestly, if you don't your secrets to be found, you do have to go for extreme measures.
- r3xpi 10y agoThis is not a valid assumption. Shredding a drive to the extent that data recovery is not possible requires knowledge that, often times, revolves around the architecture of the drive in question (see: wear leveling). An unrelated, yet illustrative, counter example is the seemingly reasonable, yet false, assumption that RMS performs his own installs of GNU/Linux.
- MrWhiz 10y agoYou mean the guy that once used thermite to break into a computer lab to impress boyhood friends? The guy that literally has a warehouse full of rocket fuel?