How did the DEA read my E-mail?

[iHulk]

get yourselves a degausser. Data is destroyed. Period!

 

[oldetom]

I discovered long ago that harddrives configured in a RAID 0 are virtually unrecoverable when 1 of 2 harddrives are missing or damaged. If you are savy enough to set up a RAID 0 and use multiple proxy options for internet activity you should be fine. You smell a trap just format 1 hardrive. They had better really want your ass bad because it should cost a lab anywhere between 5 to $20,000 to recover data and they will be lucky to recover 40%.

 

[KA-BAR]

I run raid in one of my computers. I have 2 raptors in an array but I thought the only thing it does it just sees the 2 drives as 1. How can this stop them? Also shit hits the fan who has time to format? GAS still the best option IMO.

I discovered long ago that harddrives configured in a RAID 0 are virtually unrecoverable when 1 of 2 harddrives are missing or damaged. If you are savy enough to set up a RAID 0 and use multiple proxy options for internet activity you should be fine. You smell a trap just format 1 hardrive. They had better really want your ass bad because it should cost a lab anywhere between 5 to $20,000 to recover data and they will be lucky to recover 40%.

 

[Dekaxx]

A Raid drive is set up by a chip on your mother board where the 2 drives are stripped at the block level so your actually reading and writing data between 2 drives in parallel, so its like if you had a report and someone took away every other letter, then you wouldn’t have much of a report. So one drive missing from a 2 drive array is basically the same thing but your dealing with data 0 and 1 so if half the code is missing then no worries. The point of a Stripping drive array is for performance it doubles your read write time.

I run an old ABIT KT7A RAID MOBO i love my raid system!

 

[josmkirk]

ULTER is right - the DEA is using the typical scam they use when they illegally get evidence - the info was probably obtained obtained using a hacker program that accessed your computer and allowed them to view your e-mails (without a warrant) while you were sending or receiving them - then after sizeure (with a warrant) they play it up as obtaining the info from your hard drive - now defragging and disc clean won't scrub your hard drive so you left yourself wide open but a good 7 pass scrubbing program would force them to spend major money to get any info off your hard drive - remember that the bullshit you see about how these police departments can get major evidence is just that - bullshit! - don't believe that CSI crap (even fingerprint evidence is mostly fabricated) - so don't admit to anything!

 

[lilred]

That really sucks!

 

[Ozz2001]

Well this is along one but this is the best thing going for wipeing your hard drive spotless i have this and works great! Evidence Eliminator 5.0 i am sure there a newer update on it.But this will let you wipe anything you want on your hard drive in just one click! and the cops cant trace shit off of it! Do a search.....safety first is my priority!

 

[taste-icles]

degaussing magnets are awesome too for $20 at radioshack.
or a .223 through the platters will help too, hard for them to balance them again and get data off should other methods fail lol. or while running, take a quarter and bridge chips by scratching it across the back of the disk.

 

[KA-BAR]

OR JUST BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER. ITs simple.

1. Make sure your network is secure with up to date everything with some nice firewalls, virus protection and spyware removal programs.

2. Use drivecrypt and a good file wipe program for your free space. Wipe it daily. At least 7 pass. You can use EE, or a ton of other utilites to clean shit up.

3. Have a burn barrel with some good soft wood and some gas outside in your back yard. Practice takeing your hard drive out as fast as you can a few times. (takes me about 7 seconds for my important computer) lol

4. When you are not on the net disconnect the motherfucker.

 

[Samaritan]

They can read anything they want. They can pull bits and pieces of data off that hard-drive even if you take it apart and dump it in water. They can just use special equipment to read the disc platters (they look like a bunch of cd's all stacked on top of one another) in that drive. A little late now but for "next time" get a flash drive or something similar. Everything you surf, i.e. ALL your internet activity can go right to the flash drive and never "see" the internal hard-drive. Other wise the only type of program that will erase it completely is a program like "kill-disk" that actually erases each data "sector" on the drive. It literally "kills" everything on there. It takes hours or days depending on the level of security you want. This is what the government uses if they have to "clean" or eliminate highly sensitive or secret info on secured governmental computers before destroying the hard-drives(they can't just throw them away, for obvious reasons). Bottom line: Safety is NOT convenient. Get a cheap throw-away machine that you use only for sensitive email that doesn't need to be real high-tech and make sure you can get rid of it or hide it in a hurry. Remember, in the 1980's they used payphones and pagers!