What Are You Doing Right Now
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10 hours to go!!!
So here is a question..
When you run something like this, how do you test/verify its effectiveness?
Not like I actually care because I am going to be reusing the device in a controlled environment and did not actually even care about this 4 pass 0/1/0/1 fill that it did.
Just curious.
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Verify the effectiveness of a disk wipe? That's an interesting question. Never really considered that, but should have. I mean you can do basic things like run Recuva and see what it sees. But we can probably trust that that won't work. But would a good forensic shop get data? Honestly, I bet the only way to test that would be do spot check it by attempting all out recovery on some disks at random that you have done this to.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
10 hours to go!!!
So here is a question..
When you run something like this, how do you test/verify its effectiveness?
Not like I actually care because I am going to be reusing the device in a controlled environment and did not actually even care about this 4 pass 0/1/0/1 fill that it did.
Just curious.
If it just fills it with zeros you could do a hex dump and it will show a couple lines of all zeros and then just an ellipses and then the very last line.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Verify the effectiveness of a disk wipe? That's an interesting question. Never really considered that, but should have. I mean you can do basic things like run Recuva and see what it sees. But we can probably trust that that won't work. But would a good forensic shop get data? Honestly, I bet the only way to test that would be do spot check it by attempting all out recovery on some disks at random that you have done this to.
Drives I am concerned about are shredded after having DBAN ran in autonuke mode.
So I would never deal with paying for this, but this process did make me curious.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Verify the effectiveness of a disk wipe? That's an interesting question. Never really considered that, but should have. I mean you can do basic things like run Recuva and see what it sees. But we can probably trust that that won't work. But would a good forensic shop get data? Honestly, I bet the only way to test that would be do spot check it by attempting all out recovery on some disks at random that you have done this to.
Drives I am concerned about are shredded after having DBAN ran in autonuke mode.
So I would never deal with paying for this, but this process did make me curious.
I recall reading an article on the effectiveness of disk wipes and apparently it's incredibly effective. That's just hearsay until I find the article but I specifically recall "forensic data experts" being unable to recover anything after a single pass of random 1/0s.
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Verify the effectiveness of a disk wipe? That's an interesting question. Never really considered that, but should have. I mean you can do basic things like run Recuva and see what it sees. But we can probably trust that that won't work. But would a good forensic shop get data? Honestly, I bet the only way to test that would be do spot check it by attempting all out recovery on some disks at random that you have done this to.
Drives I am concerned about are shredded after having DBAN ran in autonuke mode.
So I would never deal with paying for this, but this process did make me curious.
I recall reading an article on the effectiveness of disk wipes and apparently it's incredibly effective. That's just hearsay until I find the article but I specifically recall "forensic data experts" being unable to recover anything after a single pass of random 1/0s.
Would not be surprised. If you think about how drives store data, after a pass it would be SO hard to determine what had been there at different points in history.
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Working and relaxing, but not too much right now.
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@JaredBusch get a dump from the disk and compare it to a backup maybe?
BTW: 0/1/0/1 is not that secure, there may still be magnetic echoes. DBAN is always nice to actually kill something, physical shredding is even better
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch get a dump from the disk and compare it to a backup maybe?
BTW: 0/1/0/1 is not that secure, there may still be magnetic echoes. DBAN is always nice to actually kill something, physical shredding is even betterIf you scroll back far enough, you will see my initial post where i said this was a Buffalo Link Station Duo that I was repurposing. I decided to default the unit, not realizing that it would do this to the drives.
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Anyone seeing site slowness? No way for me to tell from here. Not like crazy slow, just not as fast as usual?
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@scottalanmiller nope
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone seeing site slowness? No way for me to tell from here. Not like crazy slow, just not as fast as usual?
Have not noticed it today. I had issues on Monday, but they went away.
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@JaredBusch Ah ok, sorry. Still new to ML, need to torture the wheel on the mouse a bit more as it seems.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch Ah ok, sorry. Still new to ML, need to torture the wheel on the mouse a bit more as it seems.
I know you are, that is why i reposted the context for you.
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Holy crap! I can't leave you people alone for a day?
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Holy crap! I can't leave you people alone for a day?
You know that!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Holy crap! I can't leave you people alone for a day?
You know that!
duh
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It's going to take me forever to catch up next week.
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It's going to take me forever to catch up next week.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Holy crap! I can't leave you people alone for a day?
You know that!
duh
+1
