Child porn suspect given 48 hours to wipe hard disk
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Child porn suspect given 48 hours to wipe hard disk
"The Oireachtas Committee investigating whether Judge Brian Curtin should be removed from office is to order him to hand his personal computer over to it. Charges of possession of child pornography were dropped against the judge when it emerged that the warrant used to search his house and seize his computer was out of date. It is understood the committee's legal advice is that asking him to hand over the computer himself would remove the contamination from the chain of evidence. The order for production is expected to be served on the judge, or his legal team, within 48 hours."
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This is one of those "how much do they want to spend" things. If he just zeros the drive once there's a good chance that incriminating portions of data are recoverable... for a price. The kind of analysis needed is not cheap. There are more aggressive methods of soft deletion, but people who really want to nuke data can justpull the platters out and run them through a demagnetizer if not physically destroy them. And no, that's not a joke.Can they recover it even if he zero's the drive?
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Depends on how it's done. It is possible to read what was on the drive after it's been erased. However, if you fill the drive multiple times with random data, it becomes virtually impossible to recover what was on there, because any trace of the data would be mixed up with a load of random garbage.Can they recover it even if he zero's the drive? Personally I'd destroy the drive.
In 48 hours, you could easily wipe a hard drive so that it would be almost impossible to recover.
Of course, you could just take a hammer to it, and burn the platters. That'd do the job nicely.