Collaborate Disseminate
As far as what I understand there are different approaches and I have a few doubts regarding each of them:
On the one hand, it seems that factory reset does not securely erase itself data from SSD storage for certain operating systems and… Continue reading Reccomended way to securely erase SSD storage of a smartphone?
I have a vast collection of pictures/photos of a certain kind, extremely carefully curated in countless steps, leaving only "10/10"-grade ones. Having realized that it just poisons my mind to keep looking at what I can never have… Continue reading How to drop unwanted data when you are too good at backing things up?
when we securely delete a volume in a machine which is installed in a virtual machine or docker, for example by overwriting 7 times or more, we securely delete the data in virtual disk (in guest) and some related data in real disk (in host… Continue reading secure deletion in virtual machines
Note: The macOS portion of this question was recently migrated to AskDifferent, with which I had no issue — however it received zero answers, and zero comments, suggesting it was not the best place for the question. I have thus expanded i… Continue reading Erase device history of external drives / usb [closed]
I’ve finished migrating data from several drives on to one newer disk. The older drives were a mix of old mechanical drives, thumb (flash) drives, and SSDs.
Now I will dispose of the worthless drives and sell the rest. In order to sell the… Continue reading How to ensure that information deleted from external hard drive cannot be recovered after being sold? [duplicate]
We are told to erase (overwrite) sensitive files, not only simply "delete" it (i.e. only remove the information where it exists). For the moment being, I’d like to focus on the following and ignore other aspects (e.g. wear leveli… Continue reading Storage media byte state from shelf and after different formatting algorithms
I’ve seen multiple software tools for erasing any history of external devices on Windows — USBDeview, and USB Oblivion, in particular. In other words, after using this software, there is no way to tell that a device such as a USB or exter… Continue reading Erase device history on a Mac [migrated]
I know that it’s possible for a computer to set up logging or auditing, and keep track of what devices are plugged into IT. But do external harddrives keep track of what computers THEY are ever plugged in to? Intentionally, or unintentiona… Continue reading Do external harddrives keep track of the computers they’re plugged in to?
I partially wiped my hard drive using the null-fill method through command prompt by
copying a 1 Gigabyte file filled with NULL over and over until I ran out of space.
After that I tried recovering files and what do you know, I got back th… Continue reading How do I destroy references to wiped files?
Basically I have a few files / folders that I want permanently deleted. I deleted them securely with hardwipe, but when I try to search into the folder where they were located with Wondershare Recoverit, the foldernames, filenames, even so… Continue reading Deleted files still detectable with Wondershare RecoverIt