What is the best way to wipe and destroy a hard drive completely? Assuming you know the FBI is coming to knock soon...

What is the best way to wipe and destroy a hard drive completely? Assuming you know the FBI is coming to knock soon, and you have time to get ready.

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punch a hole in it

Just burn down your house. Optionally with you inside it.

stop hording kiddy porn

Use them as target practice, with a howitzer.

Find out if it will blend

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>Assuming you know the FBI is coming to knock soon
Well they are, now.
Have fun in prison, pedo.

Drop it into a vat of boiling steel.

Disassemble it and use a power tool like a belt sander to grind the discs into a powder.

Install junk cleaning software

Over writing a drive once will do. If you want to destroy the drive, shattering the platters will also do. Because of the density of modern storage, they'll need an electronic microscope to read each bit and that's not a feasible way to extract data. They *might* be able to pin something on you in five years. Maybe.

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Just use some tool to overwrite it once

DIY and in a hurry ? Ice axe and hammer, punch a hole in the fucker. Drilling is not enough, since it would lack the necessary pressure to damage the disk. A simple hole with a drill will leave the disk readable.

>get the lid off
>power it up
>scrach entire surface of the disc with any siutable piece of metal
>flip disc upside down and repeat

Thermite

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Stupid pedo, all the evidence is in NSA computers. The disk is irellevent

I don't see how a wood-eating insect could do anything to titanium platters, user.

This. It's a huge misconception that overwriting your drives 7+ drives is more secure.

It's not, you're just killing your drives.

>using HDDs
you deserve to get fucked

I don't know why this debate even exists.
You should encrypt everything all the time anyway.
Why don't you?

This

Full disk encryption is a must, even have a bootloader on separate media, maybe flash usb/sd card so if hdd is seized no evidence will be found.

As many others have said, open the enclosure and destroy the platters.

I mean, destroy. Like into dust.

How do you store your doujins then faggot

SSDs

Pururin?
Ha ha
Don't respond to bait.

Have an angle grinder close by.
Then a bucket of corrosive liquid and bunch of magnets at the bottom alternatively electrify the liquid.

Cut into the drive, preferably into the discs, throw it into the bucket.

Waddup nsa.

In the jurassic park movie, the hacker used these magnets on his computers. I don't know if that would do anything to the hard drive.

Wipe the data and overwrite the entire drive, including empty space, once/one pass, that should be enough. Because some of "empty space" still contains deleted data because of magnets. Install something like recuva to see if you can get anything back, if not then congrats. Additionally you could fill the entire drive with millions of copies of an image saying "Nice try FBI".

>Additionally you could fill the entire drive with millions of copies of an image saying "Nice try FBI"
I'm gonna write a new wiping methods that does this and become a millionaire. See ya suckers!

high powered electromagnet. you can find instructions on how to build one and if someone shows up you turn it on then move it next to your hard drives. or use dragon dildos.

Write random data in two passes then physically destroy the drive platters in your preferred way.

Not sure if full retard or trying to be funny.

1 write pass, 2 or more if you are paranoid.


The problem with physical destruction is that each square inch of the platter holds hundreds of gigabytes of data.
With enough resources they could potentially extract files from the platter area that isn't damaged.

I use a coffee can of termite. I would love to see the cops bring that data back.

You're all idiots. If you try to destroy your data you will be charged with destruction of evidence when the feds arrive. If they were coming to your house, they already had enough evidence to arrest you and this will just add to your sentence.

You are correct here, but being charged with destroying data might be better than facing the charges for whatever you might have on the computer.

Same reason drunk drivers have an incentive to flee the scene of the accident.
Better to get charged for fleeing than DUI since the latter carries a might harsher penalty.

What obligation do I have to preserve anything before a search warrant has been served?

I'm interested in knowing what the fuck it is you faggots in this thread are doing that is so illegal.

>Customer requests Data Erased
Screwdriver through Platters
>Customer doesn't request anything
Add platters to the ever growing Platter Snake.

So far Ive Zip-Tied Somewhere around 300 Platters together like Christmas Garland.

Overwrite the entire thing with random shite and then drill a few holes in it. Make sure one of those holes is the cache.

Sledgehammer the fuck out of it and hide it under something like a loose plank in the kitchen

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remember to provide as much personal information as you can! for the lulz :^)

Get infected with a cryptolocker virus

>I'm interested in knowing what the fuck it is you faggots in this thread are doing that is so illegal

Trying to use /dev/urandom to generate CP images

I masturbate to anime style drawings of little girls. It's not illegal in my country, yet, but a maniac will soon run this place so I'm preparing.

This with a syringe through the "Do Not Cover This Hole"
Mix inside the HDD or the needle might dissolve too.

Hammers.

No but really, just empty your recycle bin.

I'd go for twice if you're paranoid. Once is "I'm not a drug lord" tier.

Not one person has mentioned DBAN

Its called a sledge hammer you fucks

These kids these days

>mix up some thermite (its cheap and easy)
>build a little lincoln log thing to hold the thermite above your HD platters
>put a piezo lighter set up to auto fire after you hit a button
done, bye, kthx

take it apart and rub a magnet over the metal discs

See also: Degaussing coil

No, not optionally.

Go /k/commando on it

How did not anyone suggest the actual method?

Magnets.

encrypt everything and throw away the key

Technically it's just the threaded barrel making that a scurry salt weapon. The rest is moot since the weapon is not self loading. I also have no doubt George Washington would have kept some of the wood on there, he was a classy guy. His false teeth were made of ivory.

This lists the trusted methods to successfully wipe a drive: killdisk.com/dod.htm

Example for a HDD:
1) Overwrite all addressable locations with a single character. (aka zero-fill: killdisk.com/)
2)Destroy - Disintegrate, incinerate, pulverize, shred, or melt. (Thermite)

buy an iron barrel, toss it in, applicate fire for 5-6 hours: fucking burn that motherfucker

Ever heard of the Ghiradoni air rifle? 20 round semi auto and could take down large game. Things Jefferson owned one.

You guys recommend some stupid ass shit.
Mate just dump the fucking drive in the middle of the ocean, nobody will ever find it and the salt water will destroy it quick enough.
If not just open it up and take the platters and bury them 6 feet deep.
There is plenty of easy shit you can do to get rid of them.

Use dm-crypt with key-file and store passphrase on small separate and redundant drive. On 128Mb sd-cards for example. When shit hits the fan overwrite them few times with random data.
But safest way it not to store key-file locally. Install dropbear to your initramfs, add ssh keys and retrieve key directly from remote host.

since it's all encrypted, just power off

>if the opponent is going to reverse engineer it
Microwave it and drill holes through the plates

>if I am just paranoid someone will steal my laptop and try skiddy recovery methods

shred -n 30 -z -u filename

>if I want to erase a hard drive before giving it to a normie relative
Boot in a USB live and dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX

I usually encrypt the files I want to be safe in a truecrypt container.

First zeroise the keys. You did encrypt, right?

Then, one zero pass is all you need. For an SSD, ATA Secure Erase is the best you can do (on SSDs, dead sectors stick). I personally use a zero-pass followed by ATA Secure Erase Enhanced, but that's only to cover any possible remapped sectors and because there's no reason for me not to.

If your threat model includes sudden seizure, you will also need to encrypt and securely zeroise RAM using a TRESOR-based (CPU debug registers and/or L3 cache) hypervisor, which helps defeat cold-boot attacks, and have some way (VT-d required) of stopping the various live DMA attacks. Power down when you are done.

Also have facilities for verifying firmware as best as possible, because evil maid and other bootkits.

Failing to do the above means you're not even Facebook tier. Seriously.

Use DBAN. Claim to always use it when formatting your drives. Start always using it when formatting your drives.

Eat it

You can't be charged for that unless they can prove that you have done something wrong and prove that you've destroyed evidence, which they can't.

youtube.com/watch?v=UIRXh2oiqtA

Ah yes, the old Ted Kennedy trick. Classic maneuver.

Pedo detected

UK?

if it's the FBI and not a cybercrime, dd /dev/zero or just drilling a hole in it would be more than enough.
if it is, yeah, run it over with your car.

>Full disk encryption is a must, even have a bootloader on separate media
Not only bootloader, but also /boot partition and volume header. Then you could get rid of sd-card and legally claim that your hdd is empty.

Deep fry it with breadcrumbs and eat it.

guttman 35 pass wipe, then degauss.

i guttman'd, worked before they were searched

Guttman method's as useful as zeroing the drive for anything even remotely modern

what can i say, they didn't find anything with their shitty linux live cd.

don't buy ssd's and you'll be fine

Like I said, it's as useful as zeroing the drive. In other words, you'd have been good if you just zeroed the drive

>unironically dropping the gutmann meme

yeah yeah, it was a while ago, and it's what i had on hand

This.

>shredder
Literally invented by satan.

I remember that thread, good shit

>I usually encrypt the files I want to be safe in a truecrypt container.

Breaking Bad has it right, the only way to wipe it completely is to use a very powerful magnet.

the fastest way is to encrypt your HDD from the start, then you can click a single button and no one can read your files any more.
If you don't have it encrypted keep a power drill next to your disks (a real power drill with AC not a battery) and start drilling holes through your platters.
Don't use a microwave or magnet, these are not reliable methods and can lead to a lot of data still being readable.

I always wonder what a person falling inside would look like

...and buy a one-way ticker to Belize

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DBAN is enough.

Consider the amount of effort someone is willing to put out to retrieve your data. You don't need to physically destroy a hard drive unless you're a terrorist.

Encrypting is practically useless against law-enforcement if that is what you're worried about.

>encryption
>mattering
In this day and age, encryption means nothing. I very much believe that most forms of encryption have already been cracked and we're living with a false sense of hope.

>How I would wipe my hard drive
1. Wipe it once over, this is the main event, the main method.
2. Magnet it for a while, just to make sure nothing of value remains.
3. Drill the word, "penis" on it.
4. Get my charcoal grill going and cook the fucker for a while.
5. Place it in the sink and begin doing dishes with it.
6. Give it another once over with the magnet.
7. Stick googly eyes on it and paint it green.
8. Put it in a cardboard box with my watch inside it.
9. Leave it all on my coffeetable with milk and cookies next to it.
10. Wait patiently.

All the same ideas, think up something new guys!

My idea: the Curie point.

Make a small, homemade forge, and heat it up above 1000°C

Yeah. I mean there's still traces of what you did in your brain's hard drive, and you can't wipe that. #nooneissafe

Tell that to the encrypted folders I had in an old Windows XP installation I carelessly wiped without making a key.

I assure you you will never find a way to decrypt these anywhere on the web.

The premise was that the FBI is in front of your door you fucks. You can't DBAN a 3 TB drive for 4 hours and tell them to please wait with picking up your computer until you're finished.