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Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face (9to5google.com)
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[–] 52 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I won't even give hard drives when recycling a computer, I pull and smash myself. Last set of old drives I cut in half with bolt cutters.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    That's overkill, a couple of passes with dd and it's irrecoverable.

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  • [–] 55 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    A couple of passed with dd takes way longer than bolt cutters and it’s much less satisfying

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    I think they meant you could wipe with dd and then they are recyclable reusable.

    EDIT: s/recycleable/reusable

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    They're recyclable snipped.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    More like they become reusable. A lot of places that refurbish donated computers for people who need them are perpetually short on drives since so much of the hardware they get have the drives pulled.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    SSDs are cheap enough, no sense in using a 10 year old mechanical drive to save $30.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    SSDs are not cheap anymore, mate. "AI" made sure of that.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah lmao. Wipe one drive at a time with a USB connector. No thanks. I don't have bulk drive operation equipment and then it ties up a computer doing the work.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Wait, you don't just hang like 6 of them out of your desktop by their cables and wipe them while you sleep?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    saw a setup like that at work, until it was determined to be a fire hazard. which it was.

    had to short the start pins of the MoBa with a paperclip to start the damn thing.

    we called it "the scorpion", cause it would shock you if you touched it wrong, and it kinda looked like a scorpion with the cables hanging out all over the floor...

    #tales-from-IT

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What's dd?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A tool, primarily within Linux, that can overwrite disks. I've never seen it recommended for data deletion, but I guess it makes sense.

    It stands for "disk to disk" and is usually used for things like writing ISOs.

    However, shred is the usual approach.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I thought it stood for DiskDump

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    This is not truly foolproof. Data can still be recovered from the spinning metal platter since it can theoretically be removed and put into a recovery device, even in a broken state.

    Im addition to that, hard drives/ssd's sometimes have small flash memory chips, from which data can sometimes be recovered.

    If you want it to actually be unrecoverable then you have to actually ensure all parts thay store data are truly deleted/wiped, which is more than just the core platter. Or just use encryption and throw away the key, since all data going through the tiny OS on these devices will be encrypted. Or just store them forever in a vault.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    Bud, if you put that platter back together after I snipped it, you deserve every bit of data you get off it, 1000%

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's not that hard though. There are companies that offer data recovery as a service. If the value of the data on those drives exceeds the cost of those services then it becomes worth it to fish one of the drives out of the dumpster and take it there.

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