I hear you Bro! a hard drive is essentially a read/write device. Data is intended to be recovered!!! Although there are products out there that claim to wipe a drive..I PROMISE IN 2-5 hours tops even w/256 bit encryption I could restore ENOUGH,IN CONTEXT to put you away for berrry,berry long time! Il put my money where my drive is! NO program is irreversible thats why the NSA's "PRISM" program works. Its like using anothers weight to throw them. THAT DEVICE WAS DESIGNED TO RESTORE DATA.Hell I could pull enough off of the flying head to bury someone legally but I aint LE! Will the FBI or NSA or elements of the DHS make your drive sing? OHH hell yes!!! GUARANTEED!!!!!!!!!!!! Id just teach it a new"handshake" and it'd confirm me and sing like a canary. But then again Im a hacker from the old days of machine and assembly language. There are still people who think they can beat DNA!Plus I can trick your circuits into repeating what they last did,saw,heard!transistors only need a power up! I got 500$ Right NOW says Im NOT kidding!
Why is it so hard to believe you could make a read/write device do its job? Its ALL laid down magnetically so if you have ton o bucks use a darn good degausser like how the military de-mags a submarine or ship! If notllGOTTA BAND SAW FOR ALUMINUM PLATTERS? no? spend 15$ on a 2-3 pound maul and shatter them. Cheaper than erasure software..It takes about 2 weeks to unhook the good ones but in the end they all give it up, but if you MUST get er done NOW....beat the hell outta those platters the ceramic ones wil damn near explode!!! WE"VE tried it all ,the hammer is your ONLY guarantee..I guarantee it! the first time someone lost data an engineer restored it eventually! why? cause the drive WANTS to! the heads hold em patterns. Outta billions of bits of data does one truly think one can get em all? NO WAY! WHY go to jail when you dont have to ? Except maybe on the charge of evidence tampering or some such nonsense! They get pissed when you deny them a justification for their livlihood...WAHHHH!
Keeping data away from an amateur or low level,low budget agency is not THAT HARD but try to hide your data from NSA,FBI or DHS,DoD,Interpol,CIA?......WHOLE DIF TALE!!! TRUE there are other DESTRUCTIVE METHODS..destructive being the operative word but NOT SOME MAGIC BULLET SOFTWARE! Try taking Ciscos Security A++ security test,Youll see why! DBAN has to be able to detect it to wipe it and there are many compounds to prevent that !remember the good computers have servers and they give it up too ! wipe out a firewall or two. Cables hold footprints,etc its a cat n mouse game but destruction of data is so touuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh it was intended to be! dont be surprised. It really depends on who wants your stuff and what they wanna spend! just dont risk it. Wouldnt it suck being in jail cause you used a shortcut? Id be pissed thats why first you gotta get through my stuff to find meeeeee! Good luck mine based on a technology thats been working over 50 years cause it alters itself at 240 Hertz,,instant on/off software. Close to speed of light is stil awfully speedy!! I Live for computer security!!!!!! It'll fill my pockets someday . just as soon as we get a hair deeper into quantum computing and actually KNOWING WHERE an electron is more accurately. If the electron is even slightly LOOKED AT THE WHole system alters itself at appx E=MC^2! awesome stuff! Not theoretical,under development. By whom? Whom knows HAHA!
PLEASE DONT GO TO JAIL UNNECESSARILY! SMASH THOSE MOFOS!
Thank you for letting me speak on a subject I TRUly know and love and have a Lovely day!!
Goose!