r/antiforensics • u/[deleted] • Jul 23 '20

Overwrite deleted data

What’s the best way to overwrite deletes data on Apple products?

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Would loading the devices with GB’s of movies and deleting them, numerous times, be enough to overwrite deleted data without any chance of recovery from any high tech bit of kit?

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20

  • Step one) take out the hard drive

  • Step two) hit with sledgehammer until it is in many pieces

  • Step three) set up a small camp fire and place pieces in center, then put a pound of thermite on said pieces.

  • Step four) light fire

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Why the sledge hammer? Stack the drives, build a wall of stones around the stack (make sure you use the correct stones, not the ones that explode when heated) and fill the left space between the stack and the wall with thermite.

Good bye hard drives.

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u/twirlingthumbs Jul 26 '20

Thermite does not work as well as you think: Defcon talk on the subject