binary flip

[MrMcMuffinJr]

My friend told me about this idea.  Everyone is Aware about a Zero-Wipe or whatever it's called. i'm looking for a program that instead of making all bits a zero, it flips them all. Example: Every 1 becomes a 0 and every 0 becomes a 1 making the drive unusable until it is all flipped back. 

[GoldenLag]

In other words; shitty encryption?

[MrMcMuffinJr]

1 minute ago, GoldenLag said:

In other words; shitty encryption?

why bother decrypting if the drive is dead. idk. ITs a cool idea and been searching for hours for somerthing that can do it.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

15 minutes ago, MrMcMuffinJr said:

why bother decrypting if the drive is dead. idk. ITs a cool idea and been searching for hours for somerthing that can do it.

 

why not write your own little script or program to do this?

 

there probably arent any programs that are premade to do this as idk why you would.

[JacobFW]

9 hours ago, MrMcMuffinJr said:

My friend told me about this idea.  Everyone is Aware about a Zero-Wipe or whatever it's called. i'm looking for a program that instead of making all bits a zero, it flips them all. Example: Every 1 becomes a 0 and every 0 becomes a 1 making the drive unusable until it is all flipped back. 

I think either you're misunderstanding how the hardware/software works, or you're leaving out a lot more details from your first post.  Taking what you said at face value, yes, it would prevent the drive from booting normally because it would screw up the bytes that define the partition and file system, however it offers no real security. This is a worst case example of security through obscurity.  It's only secure so long as no one looks into it too carefully.  Normally that's used to describe companies that come up with encryption ciphers and then try to keep them secret, only for them to get out and turn out to be fatally flawed.  In this case however, even that wouldn't be necessary.  Anyone familiar with file systems and partition layouts could open up a hex editor and would realize what you did in a few seconds.

 

Now you might be thinking that no one's going to look at your stuff too closely, and while that may be true, one other thing to bare in mind is that wiping an entire drive takes a long.  freaking.  time.  Even for SSD's.  If you are going to subject your self to that in the first place, it's probably worth it to go ahead and either wipe the drive properly, or encrypt the entire drive.

 

Choice is your though.