Wipe Any PC in 2 Minutes! - Redkey USB
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We investigate a USB key that claims to irreversibly destroy data.
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I've accidentally put this key into the door lock of my house. Now I can't find my family anywhere...
That is some pure, nerdy, Stephen Wright comedy right there.
Uh oh
Huh, what family? Are you sure you're not just misrenembering?
F
I can’t find my house!
Data is only gone forever when you didn’t want it to be gone.
or if you throw it in magma.
Lol, nice one!
Too true. A friend accidentally deleted his term paper. He called me in panic, I told him to not touch anything and went to his place. I tried to save his paper that got deleted maybe two hours ago and it was gone, while I could find old pictures on his HD that were years old.
I guess this was a case of really bad luck, since his Windows 10 was downloading an update at this time, but still. But then again, he kind of deserved it, since he always laughed at my attempts of teaching him about the importance of backups.
Nothing left to say after that.
@@Furzkampfbomber
Hopefully he was able to rewrite it and get it done
"Wipe Any PC in 2 Minutes"
Me, an intellectual: **just selects This PC and presses del to wipe the pc in 2 seconds**
Formats c drive
I did this and my pc disappeared wtf
I mean tbh it’d take like a few hours but it’s a good logic lol
I just grab a napkin and wipe my pc with it
@@twandepannapkins
The voice crack after saying he can’t grow a beard was ironic asf 😂
It's funny, because he did grow the beard
And now it's relevant again
"Wipe Any PC in 2 Minutes"
Reality: Takes hours.
@Anoneemus Noename Advertising in a nutshell
if you want to wipe your disk on 2 minutes... put it on the microwave.....
@@Sebastian-cn8lh Just put your hdd on a super powerful magnet and in case of ssd just break the nand flash
Hammer is safes way to destroy data ask Hillary c
@@vrajeshpc it's hard to get a magnet powerfully enough as a consumer. Hard drives still work even after a magnet capable of lifting dozens of kilos is attached to the hard drive.
You might kill it when using it while it's running, but you will be able to read the Data
Timer: *Ominously Counting Down*
Linus: _Pulls out manual_
Anxiety: *Intensifies*
oh my god correct
yeah that part is giving me anxiety XD
Hotel: trivago
@@LoLingVo your parents are gone you can curse
Every movie be like
I think redkey does it much better because it is a separate boot drive which means it does not need to avoid some key system files on the other drive (that may be needed to keep the windows wiper running).
Or ending up softlocking the system entirely because you delete the program that deletes other files.
This tends to happen fairly easily when you do a simple "rm -rf /", which works on Windows and Linux.
Forensic Data Analyst here: One pass wipe is all that is needed with todays drives. The old MFM drives with fixed ball detent located tracks needed multiple wipes to ensure the margins of each track were fully cleaned. This wasn't a huge issue as the drives back then were pretty small so multiple passes, even on painfully slow hardware didn't take a horrifically long time to wipe.
Do you recommend the red key USB method or simple Windows Reset and remove files option? Is either one recoverable?
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue usb-key - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red usb-key - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
I was thinking about the Matrix too...
@@ganswijk this guy goes deeper to the movie alice
in wonderland the amtrixx is a joke for this dude
Oh my god
Brilliant
Stop listening to the Mainstream Media. Get Red usb-keyed bro!
or just use seagate drives, they wipe themselves after a short time.
xD
lolmao XD
Xd
it's a feature, not a bug!
Seagate? More like Toshiba
This is actually very useful having worked IT in the public sector. Wiping drives ESPECIALLY classified drives is a ridiculous processing. If this red key could find its way into DoD IT departments as an official wipe method it would sell like crazy.
havent you/they using linux on work?
dd could handle it
Even if it did work, you would still have to physically break the drive for assurance
@@InsufferableCrap There indeed is not any reason for software wiping if you do not want to retain the drive afterward. Household items like hammers and screwdrivers can easily surpass military-grade solutions!
I work for an IT company that handles a lot of banking stuff. We don't wipe our drives. Instead We just crush them until they are like Sand. Cant go wrong with that.
What software do you use to wipe? Is it available to the public?
Linus @ 1:22 : "And also we'll probably be showing you guys a free way to do this."
Also Linus: **doesn't show us a free way to do this**
I just wipe my PC with a damp cloth
FBI OPEN UP
#Hillary
I bleach it, Just like Hilary Clinton
FUCK. You beat me by ONE HOUR.
I got to get all the wankstains off
Employee: What's this?
*Deletes 1Pb of storage*
Employee: Well, crap.
Don't leave loaded weapons lying around then...
I would attempt necc rope if that hapens
It should not be that difficult, since several discs will be dressed simultaneously. the erasure will take as long as it takes the largest disk to be vital, let's say 6hs for 8TB as it took 1.5hs for 2TB. the erase is simultaneous non-sequential for the disk set.
9007199254740992
Ever hear of a trojan called Arcticbomb? It only works on Windows 9x but it would be fun if that one was still around.
0:40 You're right on the important part (the data is still there) but you made a slight factual error: the entry that gets deleted isn't in the partition table. It's in the file system, which is separate from the MBR or GPT. What you're saying is true if you're deleting a partition, however. (As in deleting the partition itself, not just formatting it.)
that sentence made my ears hurt so much
Title: wipe any drive in 2 minutes!
actual product: this will take 2+ hours
More like two days!😂
Linus doesn’t need that red key usb
He wipes computers easily enough by dropping ‘em
*mic drop*
Love it
HA, but SSD fortunatelly is Linus proof
@@timojissink4715 *Linus lols while droping ssd in water*
Map Crafter he could just submerge it into isopropyl and let it dry
The thumbnail looks like Linus took a pregnancy test and tested positive...
So underrated 🤣
Yeah
HE'S A GAE BOI!
@GrassFedMeats
That doesn’t make sense, some people aren’t meant to be parents because you know... *a b u s e*
I have perform a mild giggle
The .flv files you see after the recovery is just the recovery tool being fooled by random sequence of bytes that by chance match the flv header information
Makes sense
@Anunoriginaljoke timestamp plz?
I literally got an ad for the red key when I clicked on the video that could not have been any more perfect
NAH THATS A LIE. YOU JUST WANT LIKES
Says the computer wiper USB is unnecessary and then advertise about aluminum coated crystalline RGB RAM sticks :D
More RBG means more power tho
advertises*
Yea, he definitely should have shown the gold sticks. Those ones are worth it
Why tho rgb ram sticks
@@smikkelbeerbiedo217 cause fun
With the red key you can start fresh...
But with the blue key, you can continue with 16 gigs and be happy.
LOL
what would Neo do tho?
@@Mrbeat-88 lemme find out ill follow that key all day (i bet most folks woken went literally insane haha)
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue key-the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red key-you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.
David Patmel this comment is underrated.. :(
Linus bhai zindabaad !
Due to him I became able to format my whole SSD which wasn't allowed by windows.
I always being thankful to you.
I love these videos of linus messing around with his testbench in his office I wish there was a playlist of these
"That's seems unnecessary.... AAAAND HERE ARE SOME RGB COLORED RAM STICKS!!!"
that are also unnecesary
@@pankoza That's the joke
@@lukebell4738 i know and i got the joke
@@CakePrincessCelestia Press F to pay respects
@@pankoza r/wooosh
the perfect use for this USB is in my school's server
@@soakkey9317 haha
@@soakkey9317 gun go pew pew
@@soakkey9317 and.... your on an FBI watchlist lol
all of these replies are r/cursedcomments
Yes yes yes yes yes, thank you for that idea
No way I literally just had a ad about this key right before the video AND THATS ON GOD
11:30 This is how a CEO makes sure everyone has their data cloud backed up properly. "WE ARE DELETING SOMEONE'S PC RANDOMLY TO TEST FAULT TOLERANCE IN THE OFFICE."
"Wipe Any PC in 2 Minutes"
*Time remaining: 2 hours*
frankly one should rather make a tool that just goes secure erase on SSDs because that is probably faster AND saves livetime compared to overwriting it.
wtfitsaduck ._. yeaaaaaaa.... It's a little clickbait but it's also true. It only takes like 2 min to boot to the key.
I got fooled. Only watched the video because I thought there was a fast way to securely wipe a drive
@@Stickywulf1 You can encrypt your hard drive and just toss it without wiping it if you ever want to get rid of it. It takes 0 seconds to securely wipe the drive.
@@Eremon1 that's the recovery time u bag of hard marshmallows
"this really cool crystalline structure on the top that allows...." it to collect even more dust.
positive air pressure and fan filters. i havnt had ANY dust in my pc in 1 year, and i live in a dusty ass definitely-not-sanitary home
@@bmxscape thats a lie
@@relgames6080 are you dumb? you literally filter the air going in your pc, how is it complicated to you?
@@bmxscape nice lie
@Ed Bedhead hahaha enjoy ur dusty ass pc's losers. nylon filters block all dust bud, and the positive pressure makes 0 dust able to get in through any crack or crevice
In Windows you can use
cipher /w:D:\
to overwrite any free space in a drive (the D: drive in this example)
u can use any linux distro on usb stick and run "dd" program, that copies anything from a to b, and choose hard disk as destination and /dev/zero or /dev/random or /dev/urandom as source.
Also on SSD auto trim wipes any deleted data by default
@@darvamehleran786 yeah but then you have to run Linux
@@rootytootyfreshnfruity9480 wot the problem to run it from usb stick? I use one to make or move copies/backups of harddrives
I kind of doubt this tool uses the optional commands to tell the SSD to erase the extra blocks it has for when it has to mark blocks as bad - so you can’t actually be sure the data is gone nor would normal recovery software be able to see that. A professional service who can electrically connect the NAND chips directly to their own controller (thereby bypassing the wear-balancing controller in the SATA/NVMe package) could recover those other blocks and find whatever just /happens/ to be there.
RedKey: Erases drive in 1 hour
Sledgehammer: I'm about to end this mans whole career
That would literally end a reviewer's career
**microwave
The London Drugs where I live does electronics recycling and apparently they take a hammer to any hard drives they take in.
@@EpicB yeah but i wouldnt trust them say if u dont wipe your drive alot of info u probably dont want other to have social security numbers credit card numbers etc
@@collinamalong8057 Which is why you should erase the drive yourself before recycling it or giving it away.
Wipe any computer in 2 MINUTES, *Takes 2 hours*
linus logic....
7 hours...
Ten years
If you have the most powerful pc in 2045 it will take 2 minutes
OOOF
Windows actually supports this for several years now. All you need to do is right-click the drive, select Format, DE-SELECT quick formatting (quick formatting just frees space, doesn't delete data) and then start formatting.
Note you need to do this 3-5 times in order to make sure the data is gone beyond any reasonable recovery.
Millionare idea: Lets make a drive that does the same but instead of replacing with random values it rewrites the entire SSD with rickrolls
So basically you just want a terabyte of rickrolls that you can import over after the whipe
where is my data?
redkey: gone, reduced to ones and zeros
I used the key... to destroy the key
I’m sorry little key
Actually, Discord just shuffled the ones and zeros a bit to his likings :)
Isn't ones and zeros data?
Red key is inevitable
Wipe any pc in two minutes? Glances at hammer in tool box, "You underestimate me good sir"
Hammers don't effectively destroy HDDs, data is still recoverable. The easiest way is to drill a number of holes through it or throw the disk itself in the wood chipper.
@@sarahk236 theoretically, even that is still recoverable.
@@JoeyLindsay Very difficultly, a lot of data would be lost, and it would be difficult to find someone to agree to try to recover it. But, theoretically.
@@sarahk236 just disassemble it and microwave it (dont microwave like the outer layer of metal it's like a shield) c:
@@ThatKidinAfrica A HDD disk stores information magnetically, which fire does not generally interfere with. You'd need a very high temperature to melt the materials.
You should have sent the drives to a professional data recovery service (the ones that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars)
This is what I wanted to see.
Good luck finding anything on that drive..
those services recover *broken* drives, not formatted ones so they may not be able to work with an empty drive.
Also I am curios if a brand new drive that you just plugged in has anything from the factory testing left.
Why the heck did I just get an ad of red key on the red key video-
A relative working for a bank actually told me they had a physical hard disk shredder machine for old hard disks.
Beat that.
Disk shredders work pretty well.. though they are far more costly than wiping and reusing drives
In the USAF back in the late 80s we had to pull out platters and sand off the magnetic material. Granted it was TS SCI data.
He did. The data is fully destroyed, meaning the drives could be reused for non-critical storage, or sold secondhand for marginal roi, decreasing waste, and increasing revenue, however slightly.
@@michaelhearn7302 in the words of Frank Lucas MY MAN
nuclear missile :D
Just heat the drive to 2000 C°!!! The drive being liquid will indicate all the data are gone :D
And then you plug it back in, and somehow, *SOMEHOW*, one picture shows up melted and corrupted
You will be melted as well
The Brits used to shred their Top Secret HDs down to fine pieces of metal, then KEEP the shredded metal restricted...just in case.
Dad_a_Monk British security services still do.
just put it in a shredder lol
Has anybody dumped the USB partitions of this key yet? Does it just use a standard USB stick, or is there special hardware inside..?
this is how you wipe a pc in 1 min, all you need is:
1. Microfiber cloth
2. A drive
Grab cloth and the drive, move your hand in a circular motion while pushing the cloth onto the drive.
You’ve done it! Good job!
*FBI open up!*
Wait till I use dis redkey usb thing, just 7 hours.
*FBI: k*
I think smashing the HDD with a hammer a few times and then throw it in the microwave until it sparks is more sufficient in that situation and should only take one minute.
encrypt your hdd, and spent 0.0001ms wiping the encryption key.
@@Eremon1 your key could just be derived from a passcode you enter or something, i mean yeah in theroy* they could have a keylogger in IME and send it over to intel on the internet and shit but then ime has to implement a full network stack and send stuff out, which you could eaislly detect them doing >_< . (also IME does not know your wifi password, but it could theretically steal it from whatever os ur usign (or even use that OS'es network feaures to send shit over) but i mean really??
If you are in a hurry, you use a drill.
Pina wait. Where is the encryption key for bitlocker stored???
Minor nitpick: file indexes are not stored into the MBR or GPT, as those list the various partitions on the drive. File indexes are stored in different ways for different File Systems, like NTFS or BtrFS or HFS+ or APFS
On a NTFS partition it is stored on the $MFT (Master file table) which keeps track of the files and where they are stored. ON an FAT system they are stored in the Directory entries.
Gurben92 NTFS has most filenames in at least two places: $MFT and the directory index. Then there's the journal, recovery etc. But yeah I stopped watching when he opened by getting basic stuff wrong that anyone needs to know just to fix mistakes or upgrade hard drives.
John Francis Doe ya know, the basic things that _every_ consumer knows off the top of their head
1:03 , "Wait it is all Linus?" "Always has been."
Running commands may not be as simple but they are easy to learn, oh and free! Took about a youtube video and some google searches, but it's useful knowledge that stays with you forever
Wipe any pc in 2 minutes.
Turns on Windows 10 update.....
That oughta do it.
i am so glad i looked into it and found out how to stop the free upgrade to win10 on my parents pc. that has win media centre and 100s of hrs of recorded tv......because they lied, win10 did not support win media centre files
@@nekomancer9157 I didn't upgrade my Win10 either. Because it would break all programs I had installed on a several years old computer. IT was simply not worth it.
I was bummed when I found out the hard way, even VLC is fune, I miss what was taken from me😖😥
No need to buy tht stupid key
Windows 10 is a piece of fucking shit
period
I love the fact that I live in a world now where ram has more lighting features than my damn house
Forget the damn house, my own AMOLED Samsung doesn't even come close
That bird from James was excellent.
i love channels like linus tech
Linus: When you delete data is really isn't gone
CZcams recommend: All of our data is GONE!
I saw that too
In that video his raid array failed so it's a little different than having data on a single disk.
@@Keyn0rHaX rebuild the raid and its back tho
@@Amperrs i hope this is sarcasm :D if some of the data in a raid is missing like a hard disk failiure or data curruption then it would be physicly impossible to recover any data due to the data being spread over multiple drives. it would be like trying to solve A+_=_ where A is data that you have on the drives, _ is the lost data. you physicly dont have the data to rebuild the drives. This is where parity is used for raid arrays that stores the outcome so that it could. to use the example A+_=C where C is the parity that you use to calculate the lost data. luckily for LTT it was a raid card faliure so yes they were able to rebuild the array becuase there was no data lost. :D
@@anonymousfan6677 on chromebooks all data is encrypted so even when someone could recover the data, as long as they can't break the encryption, they can't do anything with the data
"Wipe any PC in 2 Minutes!"
*Wiping takes 2 and a half hours*
Clickbait intensifies.
same thing i said..maybe he selected the wrong option...as usual no idea what the fuck he is doing...just wasted time reviewing a video of his which is complete garbage and a waste of everyones time. Please they need to get someone else to do these things and be prepared in the future jesus...what an ignoramus.
Could have been the tagline of the product
@@jamesw71 Agreed James. The presenter guy is the only reason I don't normally watch this channel. A good IT guy shows his/her brilliance through their work alone. This guy is just annoying!
@@jamesw71 ^
i love your wall! though i would have used transparent gloss or something
I was looking for an easy way to clean my PC. This is cool too.
Linus, even in 1990 there were special forensic drive heads that could be positioned in 3 dimensions, because as a drive heats up or shifts from small mechanical changes, the data tracks will also shift, both in depth from the media surface, and exact orbital position (radius). So the serious recovery labs (Polaroid had one) could extract data even after it had been wiped and overwritten, by looking in three dimensions for remnants of data. Often 100% successfully.
That's why DIY may be good enough for donating a computer, but isn't good enough for military standards.
Interesting. It seems , that ot's more worth destroying drive and buying new one at this point. Or what about very strong elecrtomagnet (for hdd's)
@@tornad8063 it doesn't need to be too strong of an electromagnet, a d battery, wire, and a nail is good enough, but even then someone could recover bits of data. If you really want to make it impossible for people to scrape data, run the electromagnet, disassemble the enclosure, and put the platters through a shredder
Best way is to destroy it fysically. Maybe hammer to a child and ask what is inside of your drive and leave?
@@tornad8063 if you were in a last second need to destroy files off of a drive, the best way is to just physically destroy the drive and scatter the remnants. If it’s one thing I learned from spooks while I was in the military, it’s that data is almost always salvageable if the drive still functions. Better safe than sorry, if you were in those extreme conditions I mean.
I know I’m a bit late, but I think I saw a military standard on the red key when he was choosing the wipe method
Thank you, I really needed this...for personal stuff...um
@rk 4391 no u
BTW, Eraser is good too (eraser.heidi.ie/)
Personal more like pornsonal
*FBI wants to know your location
I like the fisting motion when he went through the deletion methods.
Linus, it is not and never was MBR. MBR starts at the sector 0 and contains the information, required to load the operating system bootloader, as well as the partition table. It basically says "You have X partitions,", where these partitions start and how to locate the operating system bootloader. What is responsible for the file records is the File System of the specific partition. The operating system marks a file as deleted in the file system, whether it is FAT, NTFS, EXT or other. The FS is basically a catalog of all the files on the drive. If you delete FS entry, the data is still there, until overwritten, but unavailable and no more visible.
GPT is the successor of the MBR and also deals with partition catalog, sizes and points to the operating system bootloader.
11:54 it should be entirely possible to make one yourself with a Linux shell script configured to run at boot using your distro's init system.
when your parents say that they need to have a serious talk
hmmmmmmmmmm
@@maxgames. nice profile pic
@@rpxt what about my pfp
100% true lol
these pfps....
When you reset your PC in windows, it removes your “personal files” but reinstalls windows... this the reason 100k files were found
Lol true
Actually, you’re wrong
Linus used Recuva which only finds deleted files Keyword: DELETED
It’s actually Windows’ fault
@@francoisdang those are files that were used to wipe the pc..
Not the full reset option.
The partial reset reinstalls windows.
wouldn't the red key delete those files
I gotta say that explanation in the beginning is nice, because so many sci-fi stories use that interaction as a trope, but I've never seen anyone explain it. For casuals, that's not obvious.
i love that the first tv-wallpaper is Hallstadt (Austria) :)
The FBI wanted to know my location
Linus: "And this videos is brought to you byyyyy..."
Me: *clicks the right arrow key 4 times*
Feels good man
Matěj Šrámek Everyone around here has no problem bowing to our corporate overlords and doesn’t realize this channel is one giant ad.
Glad I’m not the only one.
Or L 2 times
@@themonroe654hd6 Ah, yes, bring on communism! Fucking kids...
I do the same exact thing lol
@@themonroe654hd6 By that logic any good review for any product is an advertisement, which can be true sometimes but is disingenuous to say it always is. Don't watch the channel and then come here to bitch if you don't like it.
You just need an Ubuntu live CD or bootable USB drive, then you can use some tools such as wipe, dd, or srm and wipe any attached disk.
Obviously not as fancy as a red USB stick, but still a viable option.
and free :)
I've accidentally plugged this USB in my dog and now he doesn't poop anymore.
does that work on cats too?
worth a try.
Wait until some LMG employee plugs into the server...
It wont do anything unless it is booted off the "KEY"
@@warrobotstankers9554 that's true but you can still laugh at the joke
*7 weeks later...*
We don't need another incident of a former employee wiping an entire server.
*Sweats Nervously*
I would pay for a program that instead of deleting everything like that red key, it just overwrites videos of Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up, and deletes them. So when someone tries to recover the drive, they just get Rick Rolled over and over untill the end of time
That may very well be the best business plan ever made.
not to mention that there are free open source utilities that you can download
a Bash Bunny very likely could do this
Money is Money
Not even joking, I would honestly pay for it.
thanks for mentioning dban and recuva.
Download trojans and rename them: Bank info password list etc.. so when the FBI recovers those files they ave viruses instead
lmaoo
Hello fellow Paul
@@Sir. yes Pauls are the best!
@@paulnathanielsmith no, Geoffs are the best
@@vaishnav3735 lol
1:34 i thought the video was brought by RAZER
That's pretty fast! How much FPS of your eyes? :)
SAME
I started thinking Razer made RAM
Yup, me too and checking his phone to see who the sponsor is? Segways be damned
RAZER MASTER RACE ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
“Wipe any pc in two minutes”
Me: pulls out hammer
That's 5 seconds.
But personally I would do it with a chainsaw
i got an ad for the usb stick literally right before watching this
I once did a Guttman Method (35 passes) on an old eMac. My manager got fed up after the thing had been running solidly for 7 days and pulled the plug!
lol....
I did it on a pair of laptops and it took a little over 24 hours.
What did you have on there man
@@domlee5902 he probably had some kiddy stuff if you know what i mean rofl
I'm genuinely worried about what you were trying to hide
The blue key is to make backups of what you want to keep before you shred the system with the red one.. I have to say that it was pretty cool to get a freebie backup flash drive.
I've never seen shredder software to come with any sort or methods and not even directions how to use any simple methods such as dvd-r disc for the non-tech-savvy type.
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=dev/sdX
(X is meant to represent another letter.)
case sensitive.
Usually it is sda. But can be used to wipe usb drives as well. Use command:
sudo fdisk -l to see the drives currently plugged in and the last letter identifier to replace the "X" location from above. For faster wiping, you can use:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=8M status=progress
What I do with drives is just shred files with one of the many programs that have the option to, then use one of those testing programs (eg: h2testw) to write over a blank file until literally not a single empty byte remains, then that file gets auto-deleted. Takes a while, but guarantees that any data found by recovery options is going to be garbled up/corrupted. A lot of the time, the stuff found by recovery software are just leftovers of data from page files or indexes and whatnot that get misinterpreted, that's why even though it might say "good health" the file is broken.
"What are you doing there?"
"Nothing, just arming a nuclear missile silo."
"O.K. Just tell me when you're done. Meal's ready."
Ah shittttt made my day, nice comment😅
im happy to report i love this comment and made the like count 69
your profile pic looks like a knock off of the logo for the nasa artemis mission
It's not a Linus Tech Tips video without rgb!
You mean LGBTQ
How could it be a Linus Tech Tips video *WITHOUT RGB!!!???*
But seriously, that bling on the RAM, come on is dust so overrated?
1:37
Taikamuna and drops
I as well got an advert for the Red Key product immediately before the LTT video about
the Red Key product!! W.T.F.?? Obviously, Google/YT are NOT here to "help" us! Thanx a LOT, guys
The fastest way I have found to securely wipe a drive is a 30-06 at the gun range. Only takes about .01 milliseconds and it is much more fun.
Unfortunate that it can actually be recovered. A fire just might do it. But the upside of the key is that you can use the drive again.
@@keaton9709 Firstly, It's a joke. Secondly, good luck getting any data off a drive when the platters are bent and streched with large holes in them.
"Disclaimer: The only way to guarantee data removal is to physically destroy the disc." :D
Vulcano.
@bacon banana Yeah, right next to the mariana trench.
@@Anonymous-ze5sl wow, respect, that'd be too annoying with all the smoke and ash, I always keep my volcanoes in the backyard in a cage and only let them out for barbeques
@bacon banana The microwave will damage some of the data, but not all. It used to be that some companies would use a degausser, but it was found that the magnetic plates in hard drives could still contain some of the previous data. Hammer is good. A drill through all the drive plates is faster, safer, and just as effective because it cracks the plates, making data recovery impossible without a time machine.
Even physically destroyed disks can be recovered, there are peoples who destroyed disk with hammer and nail it, and it was recovered, most of the data. So, its not enough breaking it apart. Damaging electronic with microwave doesnt killing the plates that contains data, but chips, controllers, etc. Fire can damage plates, but sometime it doesnt. Since disk drives are plated for storing magnetic waves (like if there is a positive wave, it represents 1, and if its flat, means 0), and since each sector got this waves in the waves of the waves, such as water drop that create lots of waves (because one sector in a lifetime was changed many times), remembering all informations it ever had, putting you in position to recover eg. 10TB of data from a 1TB drive, but because it needs time for digging and combining deeper data, doing multiple wipe cycles will increase depth level, slowing deeper recovery and making more possibilities of reconstruction the data is useful. But still, data exists. And since its based on storing a magnetic waves, its best to bring monster magnet and deform all this waves (data) of all sectors to some random spikes and shapes that make no sense. However, because magnet will do it extremely, pulling hell of a plates, crossing its sectors fields between, plates wont be useful, and head wont be able to read or write any data on it, because it would be like driving over the forest, trying to find the road that make sense or to make one with flat sliding head.
Alternative: search for Minecraft free version and download it.
Lol
Thanks darth vader, very cool.
Darth Vader there is Mc cracked with cracked servers
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@@yo5942 Mc Craked
GPT or MBR is not the place for file entries, those are two kinds of partition tables. SSDs usually have a sanitize feature on their own.
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Better to just encrypt the drive of your computer drive when you first buy it. That way, all data written to the drive from that time forward is encrypted. Once you want to give away the computer, drive, just reformat and the encrypted information is essentially irretrievable.
What about data recovery from corrupt filesystems, etc. This is not an uncommon occurence especially when its windows' time of the month.
Are there free, good recovery tools supporting encrypted filesystems? This is the only thing stoppung me tbh.
Encrypted drives are a good way to lose performance
@N3dR Back your data up. Don't rely on trying to recover it after the fact, especially with modern SSDs that add even more layers of abstraction between the physical storage and your data as well as regularly running TRIM in the background. You're better off assuming all data on a borked drive is lost as far as normal recovery goes. Even if it can be recovered it is often prohibitively expensive to hire a company to attempt recovery.
Joel Taggart Doesn’t seem to make a difference on my MacBook Pro
Jeff , there are some companies that wipe drives for auditing purposes (or down right destroys them with a drill press) that being said i'm curious if the red key offers a certificate of data removal or if it's similar to DBAN .
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*IRRETRIEVABLE*
Hydrochloric acid or bromine... A hammer is expensive. Rocks are cheap.
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Do it with your bare hands!!!
Software solutions are better.
I dunno if anybody even remotely remembers this or not but I remember helping my old man wipe computers for our local bank many MANY moons ago.
The program we used was HIREN’s Boot CD program which took about 20 minutes regardless of HDD size. Completely resetting every singular partition and sector back to factory.
It’s also free so that helped whenever we lost the original file haha.
I recall my older brother who worked at Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, CA telling me about the time some tech had put an inspection sticker directly onto a hard drive platter and how it was shattered when the head hit the sticker. Side note: My brother wrote the program for the F14 co-pilot's display.
Puts a RANDOM wipe pass, then finds radom files generated. Mindblown
@@bower95 Which in this case generated random ( and corrupt ) files. So seems legit.
Lol it just fills your drive with noise
@Brad Allen As explained, the system is just detecting random binary as actual data
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@Brad Allen It won't result in readable data, but it will result in places in the drive that look like data, but aren't. As they said, it was detected as a file type which wasn't even on the drive to begin with
+Linus Tech Tips When you delete a file, it's not the GPT/MBR partition table that removes the entry. Those store partition boundaries only. When you delete a file, it's the filesystem (NTFS or FAT32 on Windows, EXT4 or Btrfs on modern GNU/Linux, APFS or HFS+ on MacOS) that removes the stored entry. When you delete an entire partition on your disk, then the GPT/MBR removes the entry for that partition.
Thanks Linus, now I can finally delete any and all evidence of my past activities.
I used to work at an electronics recycling factory. Most government instances in Canada would send us the HDDS separate from the computer.... With 3-5 screws drilled through the platter. They don't bother with fancy software wipes xD
Linus and friends: trying expensive tools and Windows utilities to see how well they work
Me: laughs in dd
Linux gang assemble
@@AppallingScholar whats dd?
@@Clearshot128 oh ok
GamersForLife disk destroyer
Or use shred. That usually works to zero fill drives.
11:29 "Should we use it on James?" I genuinely thought you meant you wanted to erase his brain.
Bruh that RAM looks just insane ... for any Showcase PC-builder a must have
DBan still has the older ISOs available from before they went commercial and they work great.
Stay tuned for part 2 of this video: ‘OOPS! I accidentally wiped out Petabyte Project.’