Forensic data recovery limits

[John Ellmaker]

I'm here to suggest a video topic of interest to shop owners and IT professionals like me.  I've used many of the best rated forensic recovery services and they all do a great job up and to the point of rotational scoring and heat damage.

 

On the other side of things is data destruction practices.  There are compliant and certified techniques that say you have to not just break platters into pieces but incinerate and do more or some nefarious groups can reconstruct the data from shards of hard drives.  I'm calling bullshit on the latter which is just used to scare compliance clients into paying top dollar for excessive measures of hard drive destruction.

 

Some of you may beg to differ here, so prove me wrong.  Copy a drive full of data to a new hard drive, scratch, break, shatter the platters and have anyone prove they can get the original data.  Seems like a good topic for discussion or video if anyone claims they can do it.  Good luck

[MrImnotMLG]

I like to nuke the hard drive then smash it if there sensitive enough data on there. I just want to be double sure because I haven't found any software or hardware that can tackle that combination.

[DiamondShark286]

2 minutes ago, MrImnotMLG said:

I like to nuke the hard drive then smash it if there sensitive enough data on there. I just want to be double sure because I haven't found any software or hardware that can tackle that combination.

yea waiting for the software to nuke and physically destroy the drive 

[Scruffy90]

They were showing off something like that at defcon a few years ago, where things most folks would normally do to the platters was not enough to prevent some data from being recovered. 

[DiamondShark286]

what about software that corrupts the drive firmware and speeds up the drive while writing constantly then the drive will be destroyed and the data will be gone.