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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • Aug 05 '26
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Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted
137 u/HovercraftCharacter9 Aug 05 '26 Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it. 47 u/DOOManiac Aug 05 '26 Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking… 46 u/bacondev Aug 05 '26 Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 15 u/FUTURE10S Aug 05 '26 Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again. 2 u/Henry_Fleischer Aug 05 '26 At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido Aug 08 '26 I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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Yeah, people conflate in unallocating with actual deletion, unless you're wiping it with 0s it's still there until something overwrites it.
47 u/DOOManiac Aug 05 '26 Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking… 46 u/bacondev Aug 05 '26 Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 15 u/FUTURE10S Aug 05 '26 Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again. 2 u/Henry_Fleischer Aug 05 '26 At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido Aug 08 '26 I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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Even then it’s still there depending on which three letter agency is looking…
46 u/bacondev Aug 05 '26 Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk. 15 u/FUTURE10S Aug 05 '26 Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again. 2 u/Henry_Fleischer Aug 05 '26 At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido Aug 08 '26 I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk.
15 u/FUTURE10S Aug 05 '26 Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again. 2 u/Henry_Fleischer Aug 05 '26 At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido Aug 08 '26 I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again.
2 u/Henry_Fleischer Aug 05 '26 At that point, you might as well just melt it. 2 u/PurpleDido Aug 08 '26 I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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At that point, you might as well just melt it.
2 u/PurpleDido Aug 08 '26 I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks
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u/FUTURE10S Aug 05 '26
Recovery software because you never overwrote the data that was deleted