Some legal trouble with TOR in France

[Ringo Kamens]

Well burning it doesn't do is completely (unless it's molten and then mixed
with other stuff). You should securely wipe it with a magnet and then melt
it. In this case, just wipe it about 100 times and then sell it.

On 5/13/06, Alexandru ARMEAN <alex at armean.net> wrote:
>
> There are methods (and they are used) to read data from a overwritten
> disk.
>
> It has to do with the age of data that has been written in a single
> place on the disk . The process, of what i remember , involves some more
> hardware methods like taking of a very small layer of the disks surface
> and then try to read data.
>
>
> The only 100% solution of disposing your data is to burn the disc (and
> then maybe melt it). But selling it maybe also be effective in the given
> case...
>
>
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 23:55 +0200, Landorin wrote:
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> > I don't get it. Why buy a new one anyway? From what I know, any and
> > every data will be lost if you format your hardisk with a safe method
> > (can't remember the name right now but that method keeps writing
> > random data to your entire hardisk to overwrite existing files and it
> > does it for 10 times or more to ensure all old data is lost)?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Landorin
> >
> >
> > Eric H. Jung schrieb:
> > > If you can't afford a new hard drive, be sure to wipe it using DBAN
> > > http://dban.sourceforge.net/
> > > (open-source, free)
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Chances are it would be internal and couldn't hold much data. I
> > >> really think
> > >> you should sell your rig and buy a used one that's comprable and cut
> > >> the
> > >> losses. It's too risky to keep it.
> > >>
> > >> On 5/13/06, Olivier Barbut <olivier.barbut at free.fr> wrote:
> > >>> thanks for the advice. I will for shure reformat everything and
> > >>> reinstall linux when I get time for this. Changing hard drives
> > >> would be
> > >>> nice but I have not enough money for this right now.
> > >>>
> > >>> Do you know what a hard drive tap could look like ?
> > >>>> As for the tor server, I suggest that you completely wipe those
> > >> drives
> > >>>> securely, reformat, and reinstall everything. The best thing to
> > >> do
> > >>>> would be to sell those drives and buy new ones because it could
> > >> be
> > >>>> that they put taps in them. Also, they could have installed a
> > >>>> keylogger. If I were you, I wouldn't use any of that equipment
> > >> again.
> > >>>> At the very minimum, you need to reinstall windows/linux/etc. and
> > >> tor
> > >>>> with a reformat because they probably put in a trojaned version
> > >> of tor.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > - --
> > Accelerate cancer research with your PC:
> > http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/curecancer.html
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