How did the DEA read my E-mail?

[hitmeoff]

Try something real simple.

I have 2 hard drives set up on my system

C: for my system files (windows)

and

D: for storage of personal files (Music, pictures, papers, you know)

All you do is DELETE THE PARTITION of the C: Drive. CREATE A NEW PARTITION and REFORMAT. THat should kill most if not all data. If you have XP its even better because XP will work on a FAT32 AND NTFS file system. So just bounce between the two with every Repartion/Format you do.

 

[ELLAS]

Scary ass shit. I guess the safest thing to do is to conduct your transactions from satelie pc's.

 

[Keep it beefy]

What do you propose you will do with all the data? Ohh lemme guess, copy it? Oh and I guess you didn't think that it's possible that incriminating data from your old hd can transfer to your new one if you do just one thing wrong?

-sk

so what do you do so that if you take your hd out, the old incriminating info doesn't get transferred onto your new hd?

 

[swoldier]

The DEA can do what every they want because they are the law. Just next time use a public computer like the library or a school's computer. How will they track that?

 

[sk*]

so what do you do so that if you take your hd out, the old incriminating info doesn't get transferred onto your new hd?

Save all the incriminating data in one sector of your harddrive and if you need to erase it then run norton erase (I think that's the name) or some other program that will erase completely all the date (meaning write all 0's on the harddrive).

-sk

 

[sk*]

The DEA can do what every they want because they are the law.

No they can't, everything has its limits. If you erase all traces than they can't do shit ... simple as that.

-sk

 

[[email protected]]

PGP isn’t secure since they were sold. The windows based version that worked on Windows 2000 (doesn’t work with XP) is hackable. The first time my systems were seized they broke into a few PGP files. They at least said they did and told me what they were about anyway. I am not sure 100% if they were just reading off the temp directory.

I use evidence eliminator and set the swap file to be deleted every time. If the big boys are looking at you and they have your system you are fucked either way. The PC info just gives them more to hold over your head.

I beat the assault with firearm bullshit, but got clipped on some computer misdemeanor charge. Thank God the warrant got thrown out.

Now I just keep a loaded 45 next to the machine. The wife has instructions too. Someone crashes in, point right here, pull trigger 10X. Also, they better yell POLICE real loud or they’ll be a real party!

 

[goheavygo]

I bought a new DELL after the DEA took all my PC's. It came with a cd that installs all the programs (incase the hard drive fails). The hard drive broke 3 months after I bought it. DELL sent me a replacement hard drive. I physically installed it, inserted the 'install cd' from DELL. In a few minutes it is just like new, (all the Windows programs are loaded). If I don't stick in a floppy with backup data then aren't I safe???

 

[hhajdo]

When you delete a file (and empty the recycle bin) the actual file doesn’t get deleted.
What actually happens is that the OS removes the reference to the file from the File Allocation Table (FAT). This reference had the details such as where on the disk the file was. So when the Operating System doesn’t see this it marks that area of the disk as “free space”, but the data physically remains on the disk. Even though the data remains on the disk the OS believes it’s not there, thus the file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the platter surface.
You can use software like PowerQuest "Lost and Found" or OnTrack "EasyRecovery Professional" to retrive the files you deleted, even if you reformatted the partition...


Here's some info about securely deleting your files

Securely Deleting Files

There are several software tools that will “securely” delete your files. Let’s examine them to see how they work. Rather than deleting your file normally you use a secure deletion tool to do the job. What it actually does is it removes the reference to the file (as Windows does). Then the tool inspects the clusters on which the data exists and overwrites them with random data which is determined by complex mathematic algorithms. One “pass” means overwriting the clusters once and will render most commercial recovery tools useless. However even one pass is considered weak as agencies such as the FBI or CIA (who have the money) can probably recover most of the data. 7 passes is what’s considered as “military” grade. As the number of passes increase the chance of actually recovering the file with today’s technology decreases close to an exponential rate. Most tools allow you to delete files using it, and also “wipe” free space – that is over writing clusters that were marked as free space. The more passes you select the longer it takes for the task to complete. Also note that most of the on the shelf tools require strict rules to operate. Basically the data you want to recover has to be “perfectly” there on the disk (even though it’s not referenced). Take that 14KB deleted file mentioned earlier and remember how we assumed it was stored on two clusters. Say that you saved another file, and it was saved on one of those clusters. Suddenly for most on the shelf tools that file can no longer be recovered although law enforcement agencies can still recover parts of the file and inspect it for vital evidence.

Your best chance of recovering a file is when it hasn't been deleted via a secure deletion tool and when you use a recover tool just after the file was deleted normally. The longer you wait the higher the chance that the operating system has placed a new file over the area you want recovered.

Formatting the hard disk simply re-creates the file system, again the old data remains on the disk (but the OS can't see it). Some recover tools can dig into "old" deleted partitions and recover the files that use to be in them.

 

[[email protected]]

Does anyone use evidence eliminator besides me???

One more thing... Hotmail= Bill Gates storing you info for a long time after you hit delete