Oh pooh.
His ISP has all of that info.
How convenient.
Hillary must have fallen and hit her head on the hard drive. It explains everything.
My drive, in pristine condition, reveals nothing other than the work I am doing.
But he was young and may not have known.
A really good data recovery fir should be able to reconstruct a lot of the data.
Does anyone else find this statement curious? The characteristic tool marks of a hammer and a screwdriver (even if the screwdriver is used like a hammer) are VERY different. With stupid statements like this, I begin to smell the whiff of politically convenient happenstance.
But maybe the aluminum in my hat is too tight.
Riiiight, and no one has EVER been able to get data off a damaged hard drive.
This stinks more every day.
The agenda must proceed unhindered.
I wonder if we will ever hear what meds this young man was on, and for how long. There is where Law Enforcement and the Government should be focusing their attention. But I’m sure the pharmaceutical lobby is already lining up lawyers and PR agents to deflect any “unwanted attention” that may come their way...
how convenient
I find it very challenging to believe that as this young, highly-troubled lunatic was preparing for his attack, he actually took the time to think: "I don't want investigators to have lots of evidence from which to dissect my motives, so I'm going to destroy my hard drive."
Are they going to next tell us that he wiped the place down for fingerprints, and infiltrated his wireless company's phone records? What did his Outlook, Cosi, or Google calendar say?
So the drive is no longer functionable, the data is still on the platters.
OK. It would be easy enough to destroy a hard drive with a hammer and screwdriver. If the discs are broken, it is very doubtful that anything important would be recovered. Since they reference Yahoo, I assume that his ISP used them or he had used Yahoo as the primary search engine. It is not credible to say that his browsing habbits are no longer available, they certainly are. All ISP's are required to record that data and much more.
"authorities" are not the best place to attempt to recover data. Good data recovery companies are better at it than the GOV, with the exception of the NSA.
The info never dies......
I was thinking that I know that I certainly get cheesed off when my hard drive crashes...but this takes it to another level. I was wondering how this was going to segue into the shootings ... but then I saw I misread the title - so never mind...
He should have dumped his hard drive into a solution of high salt content.
I’ll bet the kid bought into the Mayan end of the world thing and investigators are hiding that, which doesn’t fit into ban guns b/s.
The rifle he used to murder everybody was a legal in Connecticut 22.3 pinger used for target pratcice and not legal for hunting large game like deer. Which accounts for the ammount of rounds he used when murdered everybody including those poor kids and his mother.
OK, so we have a troubled young man with psychiatric problems flying into a rage, shooting his own mother and then going over to an elementary school to commit mass murder who killed himself when he heard police arriving.
Yet he took time during the course of all this to destroy hard drives so data couldn’t be recovered?
Why would he care? He clearly didn’t plan to be around.
Yeah, whatever. With how rich the mother is, the kid has a phone with a #, an email address, and a slew of social media attached to it. Backtrack through everything and find the forums he goes to. Track through his messages and look for similar signatures and grammatical structures on the web.
The HD just has his web history. But any idiot can reconstruct it once Adam’s username is found.
Physically Destroy The Drive Platters: Go to your local hardware store, and buy a cheap $5 hammer. Smash hard drive until you are satisfied that the platters have even been warped or somehow deformed. Make this step easier by adding in a small screwdriver set if you don't want to smash the HDD case as well.
How can I destroy the drives with the least monetary / material requirements?
You've pretty much ruled out the most common and easiest ways to physically destroy your data, but that being said, you still have two routes that are fairly inexpensive.
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I was involved in writing the first DOD declassification software for hard drives.
I can say that even if the platters are physically damaged, some data can be recovered. It’s expensive though... Very expensive.