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Episode 165:
Sanitize Your Drive. Mouse Jiggler. IPPA? Weaknees AppleTV Upgrade.
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What's new in Episode 165
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• Ever want to see the inside of an AppleTV? You will on this episode.
• Sanitize your hard drive? It's a good idea whether you'd donating old work machines for recycling, or giving your home PC to a charity. In fact, we'd say wiping your drive clean is critical before that old PC leaves your home or office. Doing it at work can keep you out of jail, or at least lawsuits. Think Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and who knows how many state laws. Wiping a hard drive before it leaves your home means now sharing your private information with strangers, whether it's banking info or those naughty pictures from Miami.
• Is there a better free tool for wiping/sanitizing a hard drive than Darik's Boot 'n Nuke??? It's free, it can do a DOD 7 pass or Gutmann 35 pass wipe, will boot from the CD or floppy drive on just about anything... the only downside is waiting for it to run on large drives. If you're, say, disposing of dozen or hundreds of drives, degaussing or professional destruction is probably a more practical way to go.
• PS: Physical destruction of drives is still good, too!
• Will Corsair's Flash Survivor GT survive Patrick's coffee, and a laundry machine and the city bus test torture test? Tune in on Thursday's show to find out if the premium USB thumb drive is worth the premium price.
• The Mouse Jiggler: constant cursor movement to keep your PC from falling asleep. You could, of course, turn off the screen saver and sleep (if they aren't locked down on your machine). Just plug it in a USB port and instant cursor madness: it's like strapping a cat to your mouse: it just keeps moving in a high speed figure eight that makes your mouse unusable. How did this thing go viral for a billion clicks on Digg and sell out its first run? Oh... yeah... you can use it to prank folks. We've tried it on a half dozen machines, someday we hope to find the 'Slow Jiggler' setting so we can actually use the machine when this thing is installed.
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Posted by:
ipodman715
May 15, 2007 2:54 PM
Wow, that's the longest description ever!
Posted by:
Michael Barnwell
May 15, 2007 3:57 PM
I'm confused, I downloaded the H.264 version of the show to stream it to my Xbox 360 but I get no love. I'm on a Mac using Connect 360 v3.0. Anyone else having issues?
Posted by:
sdf
May 15, 2007 5:41 PM
awesome topics today -- can't wait for the download
Posted by:
GLaverneFlambeau
May 15, 2007 10:45 PM
The new DOD 7 standard will be get seven people in a circle and take turns smashing the drive with a hammer.
New regs say NO drive wipe technique is adequate.
I think it is a bunch of bull.
Posted by:
Junior B
May 15, 2007 10:50 PM
Great show guys. I loved watching you during the tech tv days and you two (Robert and Patrick) are doing it better than ever. Keep up te good work. Peace and hair grease.
Posted by:
Erik
May 15, 2007 11:33 PM
Hi, Erik from sweden here.
This was by far the best episode I've seen. Just kept laughing. Love the law bashing, it's getting a bit to ridiculous and paranoid now.
PS. The Matrix is great, Animatrix is great but Matrix part 2-3... They're interesting, but hardly excellent as movies. DS.
PPS. Where the hell is ATI's HD 2900XT? It's kind of hot right now... DS.
Posted by:
Raphael
May 16, 2007 1:08 AM
Sanitize your hard drive? Easy. Install Vista Ultimate on your C drive and unbeknownst to you your back up data drive will be taken over and formatted--data all gone.
Posted by:
Tim
May 16, 2007 2:15 AM
The third LOR film utterly trashed the characters of the Steward of Gondor and King Theodore. It turned them into petulant teenagers saying I won't call until he calls first. Yuck. Peter Jackson seemed to think he could tell the story better than Tolkien.
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GLaverneFlambeau
May 16, 2007 2:19 AM
Has anyone ever proven that significant data can be recovered from a hard drive that has been zero-filled one time using the drive manufacturers wipe utility? (Every manufacturer makes such a utility and provides it free for download)
Didn't Leo have a some MIT students on ScreenSavers that did a literature search and found no evidence that any data can be recovered from a modern (IDE) drive that had been zero filled?
The students found one physicist that wrote a speculative paper about tracing magnetic polarity changes and piecing together some data?
There was a technique that relied on residual magnetism on the edges of sectors that was supposed to maybe work on old oxide coated platters in old MFM drives.
What does the Center Magnetic Recording Research say about this?
Posted by:
Bill
May 16, 2007 3:14 AM
Patrick & Robert,
I loved Patrick's "frothing" regarding fair use and certain political actions to protect us from ourselves. Yes, I am a self-confessed political conservative BUT desperate politics is merely desperate and, usually, stupid with unintended consequences that do nothing more than deprive you and me of our rights.
I have no desire to become the next DVD pirate. I want to be able to back up my purchased content and that's it. John Dvorak, in the latest Cranky Geeks, has it right. The gov't is more comfortable with going after easy targets verses big time thieves (e.g., Triad gangs who operate their pirating activities offshore).
Sorry for rant guys...always a great show!
Bill
Posted by:
ECA
May 16, 2007 6:35 AM
Magnisium Aluminum, water.......On top of the drive will kill it all...
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JayC
May 16, 2007 2:15 PM
Love the show, and your "energy" toward the idiotic attempt to put people away for life because of pirating software... Hard to imagine our hard earned tax $$ might be spend to feed millions of people because they have not purchase their Windows.
That aside, I want to comment on the Apple TV hack, it does not always take 24 hours+ to swap the HDD, I remember my upgrade took less than 2 hours. However, I did not use a IDE-USB converter, I used a 2.5" to IDE converter instead and plug directly to the motherboard. The disadvantage is I have to reboot every time I need to swap HDD, which was a pain.
Keep up the good work!
Jay
Posted by:
Lukas Mariman
May 16, 2007 2:16 PM
About the Matrix trilogy, I wish people would try to appreciate the sequels. I think many were expecting "more of the same", and the sequels didn't deliver that. Instead they turned things you thought you "knew" from Matrix 1 upside down & inside out. One of the extras in that superduper collector box of the Matrix films is a documentary where people discuss the philosophical & theological aspects of the trilogy. I highly recommend watching that.
Posted by:
dennis
May 16, 2007 2:37 PM
Great rant!
Great show!
Posted by:
Ben
May 16, 2007 5:25 PM
Embassy...That is the word you were looking for.
Ben
Posted by:
kenadak
May 16, 2007 9:42 PM
I am a computer forensic examiner and really apprciate you telling everyone that a normal format is all most people need to do to "Sanitize" their hard drive... however I have to point out that... um... you're wrong...
formatting does not destroy data other than the fat table or the $I30. in all honesty the long (normal) format just insures that I can read the data that you think you're deleting off your computer :)
So, in short, if you sell your HD on e-bay don't be suprised when someone learns more about you, than you want them to.
Even if you formatted!
here's what Microsoft says:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302686
Posted by:
Chris M
May 16, 2007 10:51 PM
am i the only one that has noticed this but doesnt Robert Heron look like Dwight Shrute from the office?
i dont think its a put down. your both hilarious...
keep the good shows coming i look forward to them every tues. - thurs.
Posted by:
James
May 17, 2007 11:36 PM
About sanitizing drives ... does formatting the drive with a different file system work? Example, if the hard drive was formatted and used NTFS, and then I did a fresh install of Linux ... wouldn't the Linux sanitize the Windows data? ;)
Posted by:
Ron Willoughby
May 18, 2007 3:20 PM
NO! I have tried several erasers. Run R-Studio or Spinrite and see all the lovely data that is still recoverable. I have tech support through a couple of "secure erase" programs and they usually quit answering after a couple of time when you mention R-Studio or Spinrite. Even a Guttman 32 pass erase still had data that R-Studio or Spinrite could recover.
Try it! Let us know
Posted by:
Mike
May 22, 2007 3:03 PM
Matrix Trilogy is indeed the greatest trilogy of all-time! I could not agree more!
Posted by:
Matt
May 24, 2007 12:57 PM
Those that want to sanitize their might want to check out their norton systemworks if they use it. The defrag utility can reset the empty sectors to 0 after your drive as been defrag. Probably not as secure as other utilities, but why not do it if you defrag your drive. ;)
Posted by:
Mark Spiers
May 25, 2007 9:32 AM
Best hard drive disk wipe. Place in Patrick's coffee
Posted by:
naktu
May 30, 2007 9:55 AM
Long work for AppleTv. But success with their hard disk.
Posted by:
Raul
June 11, 2007 4:38 PM
Despite what Patrick said, the Ultimate Matrix HD-DVD collection *does* include the Animatrix.
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