Gavin
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It'll probably just end up being a cat video or something.
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SecretSquirrel
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Dismantling the drive? That's pretty much the last thing you want to do if you want to recover data from it. For a start, you'd need to do it under clean-room conditions. It's possible, sure, but it's not something a hobbyist could attempt. Even drive manufacturers may send their own failed drives to specialists for data recovery. It's expensive, time-consuming and expert-level work.
See here for a useful discussion and lots more detail.
retailestate
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retailestate
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Well ya? Actually the "clean room" guys Geek Squad send their drives (sorry - platters) out to be pulled is the same outfit the TPS uses @ $1700 per drive (what GSquad quotes). I think they are called "something"-EX.
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the lemur
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Or a video of a crack-addled Ford giggling helplessly while watching a cat video.
Honest Ed has a posse
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Here we go...grab yer whisky n snacks.
inyyz
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You mean even for the debate, no one has tried to teach him the difference between an LRT and a streetcar???
newearthling
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Why are they providing an opportunity to just argue? Seems crazy that they are talking over each other.
They have probably tried, but he's really not much of a quick learner. Good for Socknaki for calling him out on that
Crazy
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Who can shout the loudest! And now folks can text their something or other.
Brutal.
scomofo
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yep. this is terrible. city tv is crapping the bed here....and i think Stintz's arms are trying to escape from her body.
animatronic
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This debate is the bastard love child of Fox News, Snapchat and Ritalin.
blearghhh
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Not really. If the information has been just normally deleted, then you can retrieve it easily, because the info is still on the surface, just marked as being available.
If it's then been overwritten, once or a number of times, either because the OS just needs to use the space for something new, or because you've used a special overwriting program, then the info is gone baby gone. Previous purely theoretical approaches to getting information you may have heard about (residual magnetic whatevers) were thrown around years ago when density was a tenth or less of what we have now. Practical applications of recovering files that way never actually existed that I know of (so that were available to anyone other than the NSA) and certainly wouldn't still work for modern data densities. Any kind of physical destruction that people advise about is overkill from a purely infosec perspective.
The specialized take the platter out of the drive and recover info places are doing so because your hard drive has crashed or burned. In other words, the information has never been overwritten, or even deleted, it's just that the mechanism or electronics to read it has been incinerated or just developed a fault. Completely different use cases.
Also, I've been told that if you could recover the information off a drive in some sort of weird way like that, it wouldn't be applicable as evidence, because you need to physically change the original device, which means that it's no longer available for examination. Digital forensic standards require that you do a bit-for-bit copy of a device, and do any of your analysis on that, so any magic memories of information that used to be on drives wouldn't make it to the new working copy for analysis anyway.
newearthling
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OH Olivia has 40%
Ford 29
Tory 22
Stinz 5
Sooks 4
Ford 29
Tory 22
Stinz 5
Sooks 4
pattycakes
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FFS Olivia, you had the chance. This is the worst format I have ever seen.
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