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Like how some people still advocate for wiping hard drives with the Gutmann method (35 wipe passes)[0] when a single pass is more than sufficient for practicall
by colejohnson66 6y ago
Like how some people still advocate for wiping hard drives with the Gutmann method (35 wipe passes)[0] when a single pass is more than sufficient for practically everyone?[a][b]
[a]: Obviously, for absolute security, a hammer and/or a shredder does much better.
[b]: This also ignores that the Gutmann method was designed for hard drive encoding methods that aren’t used anymore.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y agoMethod A is also known as "Widlarizing" or the "Widlar" method. "How do you Widlarize something? You take it over to the anvil part of the vice and you beat on it with a hammer, until it is all crunched down into tiny little pieces, so small that you don't even have to sweep it off the floor. It sure makes you feel better. And you know that component will never vex you again." Bob Pease, describing Bob Widlar's method for dealing with broken electronic components.
- jankotek 6y ago> [a]: Obviously, for absolute security, a hammer and/or a shredder does much better. This still leaves large pieces of magnetic plates intact. At uni we could read some data from floppies that went through shredder. Hammer and shredder is NOT "absolute security".
- morsch 6y ago1.44 MB 3.5in floppies had 17434 bpi. Hard disks apparantly have around 1 Tbpi. That's like saying it's possible to jump to the moon because you could do a slam dunk back in school. You're probably still right, though. https://www.anandtech.com/show/11925/western-digital-stuns-storage-industry-with-mamr-breakthrough-for-nextgen-hdds/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/11925/western-digital-stuns-s... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_density https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_density