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Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc.
From: Fred Cohen <fred.cohen () all net>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:19:29 -0700
RAM is better for rapidly making data harder to get at. Specifically, putting a CD in a microwave oven or breaking it in half or even shredding it is not very good. It turns out that with a microscope you can get the bits back pretty quickly because each shard has a lot of data on it. Same with shredding any high-density media. Specific destruction processes are called for with each different sort of media.
FC On Oct 22, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Brian Loe wrote:
Better than optical? Surely you've by now nuked a CD - in my experience,between that and breaking one, the data is pretty much toast.If you break a CD, do you think you could tape it together and get it tospin up?!-----Original Message----- From: FocusHacks [mailto:focushacks () gmail com] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:50 PM To: hfebelingjr () lycos com Cc: Security-Basics Subject: Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. My PDA has only an SD slot so it couldn't have read the SM card anyways. The SD card still works after using it in the reader. The reader was a cheapo IOGear or something. My new one is a Sandisk 12-in-1. This is getting pretty far off topic though. To bring it back, I will say that all else being the same, solid state storage is better than magnetic or optical media if you wish to be able to erase sensitive data completely. On 10/20/05, Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr.
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Current thread:
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr. (Oct 21)
- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. FocusHacks (Oct 21)
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr. (Oct 21)
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- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. FocusHacks (Oct 21)
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr. (Oct 24)
- Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Alexander Klimov (Oct 25)
- Re: Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Terence Summers (Oct 26)
- Re: Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Alloishus BeauMains (Oct 26)
- Re: Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Jeffrey F. Bloss (Oct 27)
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. FocusHacks (Oct 21)
- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Fred Cohen (Oct 25)
- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Fred Cohen (Oct 25)