Collaborate Disseminate
The video of the bot’s ‘thought process’ is an interesting window into the current state of easily accessible AI tools. Continue reading AI Tasked With ‘Destroying Humanity’ Now ‘Working on Control Over Humanity Through Manipulation’
I had a card like a credit card that I used to use for work. It was an ID card, and it had an access code, a swiper, a barcode, my picture, my name, my rank, my license, the name of the company, and the address of the building where my com… Continue reading Shred, cut, melt, smash, grind, then flush, is it secure disposal of a security access id card?
This phone that I am using has some very sensitive info on it. I am wondering if it will be secure if I take a hammer and smash it into many pieces, and if I take the pieces and throw them out at various states when I travel will it be unr… Continue reading If I smash this phone into a million pieces is it secure?
I need to safely dispose of about 30 federal folders. That means 95% of the documents will be shredded and the rest stored. I bought a small shredder for private people (professional shredders are too expensive) and now I see that the effo… Continue reading As a private individual, cleanly destroy a large number of paper documents. Are there alternatives to the consumer shredder?
When it comes to monolith storage cards like microSDs, I know that it’s possible to retrieve data if there’s corruption using specialist software. Likewise, if there are problems with the circuitry, then a trained specialist can solder the… Continue reading Is data retrieval from a broken NAND memory chip actually possible or not?
If deleting files just removes the references then why not just delete the actual files instead of just removing the references?
Just removing the references leaves the file intact until it is overwritten, but deleting the whole file is be… Continue reading How file deletion works?
The data on my USB thumb drive is no longer accessible using a usual consumer computer (cf. https://superuser.com/questions/1687720).
I wish to make sure that someone cannot extract data from it without having to take extraordinary measure… Continue reading How to disable data from an presumably dead USB thumb drive while leaving it physically intact?
I held every chip (without desoldering, they were still onboard) in a lighter flame for a minute or two. They started "popping" a little if that indicates anything.
Then I drove a nail into every chip (approximately through the… Continue reading Have I properly destroyed my SSD?
If an SSD uses TRIM such as a Mac with TRIM support when it deletes files, I’ve been told that it is completely unrecoverable. Therefore, is it ever really better protection to physically destroy the SSD to protect one’s data?
The recommended way of ensuring that data on a hard disk cannot be recovered is to destroy it physically, for example using a hammer, drill or even thermite.
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When physical disk destruction is not an available option, what is the n… Continue reading How to best prevent data recovery on a disk drive without physically destroying it? [duplicate]