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Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • tatterdemalion@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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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    • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think bolt cutters are faster though

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      • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And significantly more power efficient

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      • voytrekk@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        But more wasteful

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re 500gb mechanical hard drives with financial data on them. Snip and done. No time wasted, not reusing them.

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  • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 have 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. Or just use encryption and throw away the key. Or just store them forever in a vault.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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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    • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Microwave it idk

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  • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think I’ve never disposed of one for this reason haha

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We delete your data after we hand it off to our partners. Who definitely do not delete it.

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• blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My friend is an exec there. After reading this thread bugged him to buy my software that would protect this vulnerability. They confirmed data/file never leaves the user’s device. Sounds pretty safe.

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  • Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You do know that it’s bullshit? Unless they’re incredibly incompetent they’re lying to you. If the data never leaves the client then all the checks are client-side, which means it’s relatively easy (compared to a server side check) to bypass those checks.

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  • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Source: Trust me bro.

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