Posted on 08/01/2017 5:17:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
How would I dispose of a hard drive(s) and no shedder? I would disassemble the hard. Break it down to its lowest component level. Go to an area where garbage is being collected and toss into garbage bins like those behind commercial buildings. Probably take a day to do. the FBI couldn’t find the parts let alone the platters.
Nuke it from space......it’s the only way to be sure.
I've seen remarkable work done on such recovery efforts in days past; skilled techs can work miracles with this sort of thing. I can only hope that agencies with the 'full power and credit of the U.S. Federal government' can pull a rabbit out of a hat with this treasure-trove.
>>the pieces are less than 1” x 1”.
“The recovery of data from damaged drives is possible. Further, using the mathematical methods employed in the experiment (Bayesian statistics) one can recover data from damaged drives with far simpler means than through the use of a MFM (magnetic force microscope).”
https://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog/2009/01/15/overwriting-hard-drive-data/
And that’s just a public example... using public technology.
Who knows what the government techno termite mound has hidden out of view.
Where’s Sessions?
>>I doubt they will find anything damaging on them.
Clever way to propagate disinformation... letting it be “recovered”.
And these guys were IT guys & professionals at cheating and they made no attempt to hide the evidence. I guess they figured everyone was as dumb as the Democrats that hired them.
I thought I read one account that said the hard drives were recovered intact??
can’t put my finger on that post now. sorry.
I thought everything was in the Clouds?
Awan was desperate to get the drives back in his possession but a career Marine had control of them by virtue of renting the Awan house where they were stored in the garage.
It appears that Awan slipped up when he rented the house without clearing the drives out. He thought he still had possession.
The FBI, who is working in some capacity to assist with the Capitol Police on the Awan investigation, confirm the hard drives and other computer equipment have been damaged but are pointing the finger at the Capitol Police's chain of custody with the evidence.
That doesn't make sense though, because the fellow who rented the Awan house and found the hardware, called the FBI, not the Capitol Police, so THOSE hard drives (unlike the laptop) were never, as far as I can tell, in Capitol Police custody.
Separately, I consider True Pundit to be a junk source.
“His lab, which does extensive work for law enforcement and Fortune 500 corporations, has also recovered data from disks that were in fires and that had been submerged in water.”
Hold muh beer while I do some recycling:
Just ask WikiLeaks what Julian bought from Awan.
ALL of America’s secrets.
well I’d trust the marine outta that whole bunch.
it’s a shame we can’t even trust our LEO these days.
Take the drives apart. Melt all of the parts with an Oxy-Acetylene torch. Nothing left but a puddle. Done.
Absolutely. Some data will have been powdered, but anything, even small bits of drive are recoverable. With the data densities today, even a small 1mm sized piece can provide kilobytes of data.
>>they made no attempt to hide the evidence.
>>I guess they figured everyone was as dumb as the Democrats that hired them.
Or maybe those drives are loaded with misdirecting bullshyte and disinformation.
Thanks. I knew most of the story about the old marine.
Awan had to know the hard drives were potentially deadly evidence. Why did he not completely destroy any data and dispose of them, but instead kept them around to be forgotten?
Was he that sloppy or arrogant? He did get caught, now it looks like it will all come down on him, or will it?
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