Hide Your Secrets FOREVER! - Erasing Data Securely
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
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How can you erase data to the point where it's unrecoverable?
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Techquickie with no intro.
I like this trend.
Also, less than 5 minutes
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Hasn’t had an intro for a while now - I guess they found they were losing views from the sub/bell request.
...but...but...the techquickie intro....
Actually feels actually quick
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Dennis is quality control, inserts self as meme
Is it really a meme if it doesn't get caught?
-Do you have extra 5 minutes per day?
-No. Well, I had, but I watched Techquickie
make it 10 minutes then
2X baby
Even if I did I wouldn't get caught
Denis Steal Cutlery
da best!
Pffft me???
**Stops everything and intensely focuses on vid**
I like Riley doing these. He did a good job.
I like Riley doing everything! ☺️
Yessss
Riley is my only secret and I NEVER want him to go away.
I just let Linus drop them.
...while they are running
Ultimate data eraser for the paranoid
I can finally erase my Detective Pikachu X Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction
wow linus looks different
Chickerino Radio I knowww
@@RewindOfficialDoesMusic yeah little bit different
Pfft, Thats MatPat from Game Theory. nice collab tho.
Arne Vaise oh my gosh, how didn’t I notice that.
no dude he is not matt
I once read on reddit that the best way to securely wipe a hard drive is to unscrew it, take out the platters and bend them. So I gave it a go and just as I started bending the platter it exploded into thousands of tiny shards all over my keyboard, desk, the floor, my lap, and the monitor. It also cut up my thumb and some fingers so much that they bled and left a trail of blood all the way through the house to the bathroom where I had to bandaid them up. Then it took me an hour to vacuum up all the shards but there are probably still some in my keyboard. I was lucky none got in my eyes.
I thought this was going to be a joke, I was waiting for the punchline at the end.
Hope you feel better bro
This isn't normal and they're typically safe to open
Find some very hot,molten stream and throw it in that and bury it. After breaking it into tiny shards. Would that work? Or wrap it in tin foil and out it in the microwave. Just some crazy thoughts haha
Riley without Mustache scares me
real
Thanks I can now successfully delete my 16 terabyte homework folder my parents keep asking about.
🏫 these day's, so much work they give you 😶
@@daseinemittens somehow me thinks it isn't really homework... unless pronhoob is a new algebraic equation.
@Paul Dybala the problem is that makes it easier for the FBI to access my private homework
*drags and drops Linus Sebastian fanart into "Homework" folder*.
What happens to them when they corrupt and cannot be deleted??
I love Seeing riley all the time now! ALL HAIL RILEYTECHTIPS!
THIS IS THE BEST SPEAKER OF THIS CHANNEL.
yes but not a single reply to any question asked in the comments
Felt pretty confident when my mom and I took a drill to the 4 harddrives out of my deceased stepfather's computer. She was just gonna leave it on the curb as is.
What did your stepfather have to hide? Child porn? Wtf why would you have to hide his files to such an extent?
@@csharpcoffee Bank records, SSNs, school records, credit card numbers, website passwords. A lot of data can be found on hard drives.
Riley was such a good addition to the team! I really like his style (I don't mean his clothes)!
the best way to wipe your drive is to ENCRYPT your drive. WHen you're ready to erase, assign a 128bit encryption key, then throw away the key. This makes "wiping" the drive instantaneously.
@Tcll5850 Can't you simply just transfer the descryption key to your newly installed OS?
@Tcll5850 Cant speek for NTFS but if i would need to recover one of my encrypted EXT4 filesystems the only difference is that need to mount the Luks container first. after that its the same procedure as with an unencrypted drive.
With enough time, months or even years they can finally find 128 bit key
By far the best / fastest method, yes - and good luck trying to make sense of the garbled sectors afterwards.
Overvrite drive with one feature movie and song? Till its full? And your done?
Therapist: Glasses-less Riley isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Glasses-less Riley:
I used to take out my drives ol' Yeller style...This is going to save me a bundle waiting a week to wipe my drive 35 times...
Me: *delete something*
My pc : It'S fReE rEaL eStAtE
Another nifty trick for clearing deleted data from a hard drive is to use your copy of spinrite if you have one. Delete the data then run spinrite on level 4.
This will invert every sector as it passes and then change them back again to what they originally were it does this to check that the drive is functioning properly but in the process it also rewrites the content of the drive twice over the existing data without damaging the existing data.
not long ago I gave a spare 3 terabyte drive to a friend who needed it for a CCTV system. To erase my data I formatted the drive and then around spinright on it. The driver was healthy and empty.
That was really well done, I think I can say it's actually one of my favorite videos on this channel.
don't ever sell used hard drives - Drives are cheap, Data is expensive. It's not worth it in the long run
Indeed. Just destroy them, then recycle them.
Nothing wrong with selling used drives if you've wiped them. Although I bought 9 drives across separate listings on eBay recently, 6 of them had bad sectors.
@@hippopotamus86 just ask for S.M.A.R.T. of each one
@@vadnegru Doesn't always help, SMART only shows errors if it finds them. A couple of the drives showed good SMART results, but later reported bad sectors once writing large amounts of data to them. Another 3 of the drives I had bought in a single listing all had terrible write speeds which turned out to be a known problem for some Hitachi drives after x amount of powered on hours, also turned out to be very noisy. The drives I sell I do a full check with HDtune Pro which will check every sector, and also shows speed map etc.
The SSD part was a bit too superficial, IMHO.
but who doesn't want to manually physically destroy their hard drives? Hammer + drill + saw + fire + acid should about secure things.
I like to shoot them up with a rifle
I just shoot it with a shotgun or AR-15
Maybe those who want to resell the hardware?
Where are ur glasses mate
He looks very different (not bad, just different) without the glasses... I almost didn't recognize him, then the video started playing and he spoke, and I was like, "Oh, that's Riley"
I was wondering why he looked different
Up ur as
@@nirapsingh9773 what is wrong with you?
@@aravindr4986 idk, i think i have depression and i am fat. Thanks for asking.
I love LTT cast, but I think that Riley is far and away the most well spoken out of the cast aside from Linus. I'd love to see him do any video Linus doesn't (aside from the ones Brandon and Terran, love when those guys talk about their niches).
0:08 haha XD "Linus Sebastian fan art" and "where is the internet?"
Ah yes, PESONAL SECRETS
i spend my extra 5 minutes a day for techquickie
Its weird to see Riley without his beard
My son wraps my old hard drives in tannerite and lights it up with a bullet. That's far more entertaining than scrubbing a beat up old hard drive, unless you want to sale it.
I will never be ashamed of my Linus Sebastian fanart.
Sauce
I work for a tech disposal company and we have wiping suites and shredders. So that's where my old drives go ;)
I absolutely love how they're trying new styles with this channel it's honestly refreshing
And by "trying new styles" you mean putting Riley on everything? 😉 I really love that too! 😀
*What if I overwrite the free space myself with any random data or files to make the Drive full and delete it, wouldn't it erase what's left of* *the previously deleted data.*
*Much easier than using a dedicated software for it* 😂😂😂
that works too software just makes it automated and easier.
@@techgo4431 i know software will make it easier but i don't always want all my files permanently deleted.
What if i accidentally deleted an important file and wanted to recover it later, the software would fuck me real nice then 😅😅😅
Hey Linus you got a new haircut?
FBI disliked this video.
Want to quickly erase all your data in a secure way ? Ask linus to DROP IT.
You meant hold it 😂😂
@@EchoDroll Holding and dropping? Sounds the same when its in linus' hands xD
@@anuragsunil yeah 😂😂
Microwave it, raymond reddington taught me that
Just give it to Linus for about 5 minutes and he'll drop it for you.
Yeah Riley!!! We need more Riley!
Ayush Gupta you Gay for Riley?!
@@stabinghobo57 he is a good host. That's why I said that
Riley is doing really a great job here. Pls more Riley everywhere (and also more Alex)
You're telling me i can't wipe a server with a cloth?!?!
@Professor Toothy i suppose I'll just get some chumps to toss it in a river for me. Lol
Thank you for letting me know that trim isn't an acronym, most important part of this video imo.
1:35 1010101 upside down is LOLOLOLOL. That's what I learnt from this video. Every day's a school day.
I once tried to recover data from a faulty USB drive (would crash often and leave a lot of files corrupted or undetectable) and a laptop hard drive, turns out all those video game save files, pictures from city trips with my ex-girlfriend and pornography that I thought was very naughty at the time but now know is near child's play were still there. The only thing was, I had to put it all on a 2 TB external hard drive to be able to actually store all the files that were recovered and manually filter them. Turns out that in the process of recovering files from a storage device, you also generate a lot of duplets and (sometimes due to being unreadable) junk that you cannot narrow down using an algorithm.
I have recovered data from wiped disks, but it can take a lot of effort and needs special hardware to succeed. Also, it costs a real lot!
Or if you have really sensitive stuff on there, you use a tool called a hammer
It's a very enjoyable way to _secure_ your data from prying eyes.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The best tools are the simplest!
Destroy the hard drive
Warning with SSD, at some point they change their state to read only, just to ensure data will be allways rdcoverable after a 'dead' sate, even if SSD is not seen by BIOS, normally when SSD is near failure.
Also the chips can be readed with X-Ray, but recovering last states is too much complex compared with HDD because SSD do internal re-mapping for every sector written, that is the main reason why on labortory only reach near 25 last states, as opposite to 138 last states on magnetic tradicional platter disks (HDD).
Wot
(o_o)?
Wait... Last year my PC started BSOD'ing all the time at random.
Tried everything, reinstalled Windows bit wondered why my M.2 wasn't showing in BIOS. Could still install windows and ran fine for some time. Started crashing again.
Got everything replaced under warranty - except the disc.
They tested it and shipped it back. Started crashing again. Got a new disc and it's been all good since.
Had no idea that a missing disc from BIOS indicated eminent failure. Good to know.
2:00 So a bit represented as a range from 0 to 1 inclusive when imaging the magnetic properties of the drive can be 1.03? Does the bit also go up to 11?
Overvrite drive with one feature movie and song? Till its full? And your done?
Someone should make a video buing hard drives and running data recovery software like recuva and see what they can find from previous owners.
Go collect 6 infinity stones... snap your finger, watching your drive disappear...
That's the most complete Techquickie I ever saw.
en windows:
abres el símbolo de sistema como administrador
ejecutas «diskpart»
haces «list disk»
haces «select disk #» (reemplazar # con el número de disco que deseas limpiar)
haces «clean all»
tarda, depende del dispositivo y la interfaz
no se recomienda en SSD ni otro almacenamiento sólido
Techquickie: "at some point you had data you wanted to get rid of without a trace-"
hillary clinton: 👀
Riley looks like a sleepy panda without his glasses.
Platter is turning the wrong way in your animated recreation of a green hard drive platter turn under a reading head.
+1 for managing to work Tim Heidecker into the video.
Ah yes, non-virgin Linus and Asian Linus at 3:35
I like a lot more when this guy is not making himself a clown
If I want to do that I would ask Hillary Clinton
How to wipe a HDD?
HC: "Like with a cloth or something?"
0:56 It's free real estate 😊
This is all well and good. I tend to buy off lease business computers. They have a system to protect sensitive data when they return the computer. They take the drive out and shred it. It is a lot quicker than overwriting the drive. You might try this only use a large hammer when you sell the computer, and it feels good. A big hammer can be very therapuetic.
Wow, I see his eyes and they are beautiful!
I managed to format a drive and install a new OS on it and still managed to recover nearly 61% of all the old data on it. So if I want to securely delete something I allays use a 3 pass rule. Overwrite everything 3 times and it passes into legends and is gone.
1 pass is not allways enough, two is usually good enough, but on occasion some thing can still be recovered. So I use 3 passes.
I just wish that there were a quicker way to do this.
Trim is good if you experience data loss so you could recover it again. (That happens one time for me) so that was good for me that I had Teim enabled
0:17
Windows Vista, I don't feel so good
AH! Monster! Glasses! Put on the glasses! :D
Thanks for reminding me of that IDE hard drive that smacked me in the face a few weeks ago and is unbootable thanks to a bad format. I might need to get some IDE-SATA-USB adapters and format it so my ancient Packard-Bell has a backup drive now.
Yo I got you hard drive boys... just hold a magnet up to it
Nope. Doesn't work on newer hdds
Brent Paulus images.app.goo.gl/JKWExkgrhKjMMyh39 oh it’ll work
🎯 Key points for quick navigation:
00:00 *🗑️ Deleting Data Securely on Hard Drives*
- Deleting a file or emptying the recycle bin doesn't securely erase data on hard drives.
- Overwriting the file with random ones and zeros or using software tools can help securely erase data.
- Scrubbing platters multiple times on a slow mechanical hard drive may not be necessary.
02:45 *💾 Securely Erasing Data on SSDs*
- SSDs delete data differently than hard drives with a feature called trim.
- Modern SSDs should delete files for good on their own.
- Wiping the entire drive and doing a fresh OS install before selling or giving away the PC is a good practice to prevent data leaks.
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4:30
"Editor - Not a Robot"
ha! yeah right!
this is like the 4th maybe 5th time they explained how hdds and ssds work?
also you cant delete your data if you use winblow$ because micro$oft will still have several copies of it since they literally steal your data
sry i really cant take you serious if you talk about privacy/security and then use winBLOW$
I mean, you're on UA-cam..
I’m feeling this new format. Giving you that sweet sweet thumbs up.
oh no! dennis got hands on my rare pepe collection!
0:54 Haha I see what you did there XD
I heard a good way is to have a ready encryption at your disposal. So you can than just format it and once wipe it.
I've given away OLD hard drives plenty of times. I just do a 1-3 pass wipe of the drive and have never had any issues. But, then again I don't store stuff that could cause me issues since, I don't do things that would cause me issues. Privacy is a joke now a days anyway. But, to each there own. I need drama in my life so, I'll find something to be concerned about. (:
Fiy burning or trying to damage a hdd dosnt keep ur data safe, forensic tools can still aquire alot of info from them despite them being damaged
Around 1994 the government said that it ordered ALL companies that they couldn't an erasing or encrypting software that the governement couldn't undo.
*You don't need to hide your secrets if you have no secrets.*
Who doesn't love a good Riley quickie?
AAAHHHHH THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE VID MAKES ME BLIND
I was flabbergasted by Dennis.
Riley lookin like a play boi!
Great!
Now i know how to delete my folder of my murdered victims.. :)
Now it is time to delete all those nudes that I have on my phone...
i recovered a lot of drives even after formatting to a different filesystem, the best you can do is to destroy the partition table and recreate it then format
Overvrite drive with one feature movie and song? Till its full? And your done?
My way to delete my data is to not delete my secrets but store it on my worst crappiest hard drive and when it runs out of space ill drown it in water, smash it with hammer, rip it apart, smash again, scratch the plates and finally pour some white spirit and ignite it💁♂️😏
Also some nicer harddrives and ssds will have ISE or Instant Secure Erase, and they can be wiped instantly. Since they encrypt all data on the disk, so just wiping the encryption key is enough to full make all data unrecoverable.
3:16 Meme God's 💯
Never ruin a perfectly good chain by trying to cut a hard drive.
Guttman method is the only method for me, gotta keep those tentacles away from innocent schoolgirls
3:04 - Undelete tools can still recover files on unencrypted SSD's
3:39 milk was spilled here
damnit. 1:33 when all those popped out I just kept seeing "lolololololololololol"
the "dd" command does a good job of that