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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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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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      • stacksofplatesS
        stacksofplates @JaredBusch
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        @JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

        10 hours to go!!!

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        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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        • JaredBuschJ
          JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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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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          • MattSpellerM
            MattSpeller @JaredBusch
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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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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @MattSpeller
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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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              • thanksajdotcomT
                thanksajdotcom
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                Working and relaxing, but not too much right now.

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                • thwrT
                  thwr @JaredBusch
                  last edited by

                  @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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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @thwr
                    last edited by

                    @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 better 😉

                    If 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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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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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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                      • thwrT
                        thwr @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller nope

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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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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                          • thwrT
                            thwr @JaredBusch
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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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                            • JaredBuschJ
                              JaredBusch @thwr
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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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                              • Minion QueenM
                                Minion Queen
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                                Holy crap! I can't leave you people alone for a day?

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @Minion Queen
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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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                                  • JaredBuschJ
                                    JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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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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                                    • Minion QueenM
                                      Minion Queen
                                      last edited by Minion Queen

                                      It's going to take me forever to catch up next week.

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                                      • MattSpellerM
                                        MattSpeller @Minion Queen
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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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                                        • DashrenderD
                                          Dashrender @JaredBusch
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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

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                                          • thwrT
                                            thwr @Minion Queen
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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?

                                            Leaving the boys alone? Is the fridge filled? Emergency numbers placed next to the phone?

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