I mainly use thumb drives to watch movies and TV shows on my media player. I had no idea that purchasing a used thumb drive on eBay could be this serious. I always get new ones at target, Walmart, and Staples. Sometimes Best Buy.
That's because people just format/delete them. Deleting the files puts them in a hidden state, the OS basically lies to you saying it's gone but it's actually still there, waiting for it to be overwritten. You need to use a special tool which destroys all the data on it by setting everything to 0 which may take a while. Destroying it isn't the only way.
@@kelpking4484 Because it goes into an unpredictable state where it cannot be recovered with certainty. It's easier to say "all data will be lost" rather than a whole explanation of why it can still be recovered.
Easiest way to clear a thumb drive: 1. Delete all the data on the USB 2. Max out the space on the USB with random useless stuff 3. Delete that content. All past content if ever retrieved will just be the random stuff due to the fact that the old data got replaced with the new data
@@looksrik If you choose the option to overwrite the data with random zeros and ones (as far as I can tell only Linux has this option though) and it takes a very long time . My 500 gig hard drive took 3 hours to complete.
You have to format it completely. The “delete” button on an OS isn’t always permanent, for various reasons. And why would you need to buy a new drive and throw away the old one? Even if it’s just like a 16 GB drive you may as well just buy a USB hub and plug in all your old drives for a bit of storage expansion. This is really a non-issue.
Technically you have to burn it. My comp sci teacher thought us this before, the only way to remove data is really to burn the item in question. That's what hackers do with their burn computers, once they do the deed, they burn the hardrives, and then douse the rest of the computer into a fire.
Experts say destroy the drive, this expert says format, use a data scrambler, and file shredder. Just pushing the delete button does not remove the recovery sector where you can restore the files. Encryption software also works but you want to make sure it's 256-bit or above.
When you delete something, you rewrite that something with a 0 and that's it, the file isn't gone, it's just hidden. If you really want to delete something forever, use the DoD or the Gutmann method that uses an algorithm that "messes up" the data.
Yeah but it’s the same with recently deleted on iPhone like if the police gets in your phone or someone trained they can recover the thing you deleted even ‘forever’ 🤷🏼♀️
I never sell my used thumbdrive, because i use my thumbdrive until it dead (cannot be detected by OS anymore or ended as "raw" and cannot be re-formatted)
Don't ever sell anything you had stored stuff on. Including thumb drives, computer hard drives, external storage, etc. This is why when enterprises, business' and schools, etc sell used laptops they destroy and shred the drives and sell the computers without them.
Whoever is selling them is doing what I did in uni you wait in the computer lab after a class and snag the usbs left by people then clear them and sell them
Thumb drives, internal hard drives, external hard drives, just get overwritten when you delete the information. Like white-out on paper, the previous information is still there underneath. The best way is to destroy the thumb driver.
I was thinking the same I have 3 of my own thumb drives because I have to work with a lot of essays and video editing for college and the stuff I don't I delete them after I transfer them to my computer
When your done with a thumb drive , expose it to the air and it deletes it. Or put under water to make more sure. Or the best best way i think is bend it
I bought a used laptop from a person on Facebook Marketplace, they said they factory reset it and I saw they did but, after some digging, I found lots of personal information, I was so amazed I contacted the person and warned them of their mistake.
And What i say is dont destroy them because of the following reasons: 1. we can keep it in a safe place (like your drawers or cupboards of shelves) 2. It would be a waste of money 3. Anything you forgot to store will be destroyed along with it
when you “delete” things it just puts a value as empty where other data would just go over that data and the old things can be recovered or corrupt some parts
2:40 I knew it!! I was like: "All those drives and no p*rn? Get out of here!"
@Mohammed Dagia why?
oof
@Mohammed Dagia Intelligence 10000000000000000
Jh
Mohammed Dagia this is your usb drive filled with viruses ☠️
“Your deepest secrets” oh you mean that PowerPoint from the fifth grade
Pat the most important thing i had on one was cheats for gta games
I had three pirates movies
I DELETE mine with a Hammer.
*Damit* they beat me to it
So did Hillary Clinton lmao
Hillary been there too
i think just copy some trash data to thumb drive until full, delete and repeat few times is enough
Dang, Lisa’s dark side is darker than what we thought. lol
oof
Lisa was in Playboy!
By side you mean... 😏😏
⚫
Lisa: "What's this?"
Woman: "Homemade porn"
Lisa: *turns back to screen and continued watching*
Sexta Espada LOL I KNOW RIGHT
😂😂😂😂😂😂👌
HMMMMMMMMM
Everly Green sorry but what does that mean?
She Enjoyed
The most unbelievable thing about this video is that they were able to insert the USB into the USB drive on the 1st try.
Omg ikr
I do it all the time, its not a skill or anything lol
@@ALItm1 yeah I mean you just gotta check like for 5 seconds before plugging it in
@@vivian_accofficial9540 literally haha, the only time i can see someone having trouble with it is if they were doing it in the dark 😂
they only show us the successful footages
Who throws away drives 🤨 I be damned if $10 go down the train
Drain *
CAVON ! Yeah same
Drain
Demarkus no train meaning there’s a hold between the train and if it drops you can’t get it back so it is train
@@demar8888 no train
Let me go on eBay now so I can steal someone's identity with a USB
@@JK_JK_JK_JK r/whoosh
@@JK_JK_JK_JK illegal? How is that illegal if the person who lost its USB or sold it without knowing that deleting the data is still actually there.
Francesco Bourgoulli *gasp* trueee
Identity theft is not a joke Francesco!
lisa will be there to confront you my friend
but be honest ...were you not expecting p*rn?
Ak-Foxy 7 bro they both sat there and watched porn
Ak-Foxy 7 I was
😂 yeah but not child porn
Yes lol
I wasn't expecting to be accounts with passwords!
Thumb drives???...memory sticks???...
Am I the only one saying flashdrives?
Ioly Wolf no they just dumb
I call them usb sticks
@@brazed420 Me too!
I call them memory sticks haha
Ioly Wolf no
Plainrock124: I’m the best tech smashing youtuber!
Inside Edition: *Hold my hammer* (3:25)
Plainrock124: *flex his Tesla*
i bet plainrock will flex back on Inside Edition
Yes
Im here
That is so true!
When you're done with a flashdrive, smash it up with a sledgehammer, or put it in a hydraulic press
Oof
Tomlegend My Grandad does it with old hard drives
Tbh, I think people should do it with all devices that physically hold data
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Rapidfury13 Hahaha😅😅😅😅😂🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually offer it as a service to destroy data
Flashdrive smasher 5000000
Omg home made.... Videos
Yo
OMG
Stop stalking me
Stop. Stalking. Me. Right. Now.
Lol barely any likes
I mainly use thumb drives to watch movies and TV shows on my media player. I had no idea that purchasing a used thumb drive on eBay could be this serious. I always get new ones at target, Walmart, and Staples. Sometimes Best Buy.
I just use thumb drive for exporting files to my 3d printer 🤣🤣🤣🤣
*"What's this?"*
*"Home made p*rn."*
*Proceeds to still look at the screen*
Omg no stop!😹
Trying to get likes so copied first comment
@@youtubebot4529 it's not like you do the same
Instructions not clear smashed my grandma’s Dell Inspiron
That's because people just format/delete them. Deleting the files puts them in a hidden state, the OS basically lies to you saying it's gone but it's actually still there, waiting for it to be overwritten. You need to use a special tool which destroys all the data on it by setting everything to 0 which may take a while. Destroying it isn't the only way.
Then why my computer always making me reformat my sds and telling me all my stuff is lost
@@kelpking4484 Because it goes into an unpredictable state where it cannot be recovered with certainty. It's easier to say "all data will be lost" rather than a whole explanation of why it can still be recovered.
Please help, I formatted my sd card and I rlly need the info on it, how do I get it back. Thanks so much
@@harneybarney8156 use some kind of recovery tool which can recover partitions and deleted files
@@joopie46614 hey thanks for replying, is there one u recommend, a lot of them seem like scams
Easiest way to clear a thumb drive:
1. Delete all the data on the USB
2. Max out the space on the USB with random useless stuff
3. Delete that content.
All past content if ever retrieved will just be the random stuff due to the fact that the old data got replaced with the new data
McSage you really think these sheep have Linux?
Isn't format enough?
MoGaming I have Linux mint sooo
@@looksrik If you choose the option to overwrite the data with random zeros and ones (as far as I can tell only Linux has this option though) and it takes a very long time . My 500 gig hard drive took 3 hours to complete.
Lisa guerero will confront the thumb drive owners
Din Zaf LMFAOOOO
Din Zaf which she did.
Din Zaf She’ll confront the stuff on the drive
But why would you throw out perfectly good USBs? SMH
Lisa: What’s this?
Girl: Homemade porn.
Lisa: Looks intently.
GOTTA DELETE IT pics with my ROBLOX BOYFRIEND CAN NOT BE SHOWN
Heidi Summerz deleting roblox sex? Okay ma’am.
NotMike • 2 M views • 2 months ago 😂😂
Ew
that’s against Roblox tos
Oder
Imagine the computer is begging you to insert your drive.
You have to format it completely. The “delete” button on an OS isn’t always permanent, for various reasons. And why would you need to buy a new drive and throw away the old one? Even if it’s just like a 16 GB drive you may as well just buy a USB hub and plug in all your old drives for a bit of storage expansion. This is really a non-issue.
0:32 “no ones ever really gone”
Technically you have to burn it. My comp sci teacher thought us this before, the only way to remove data is really to burn the item in question. That's what hackers do with their burn computers, once they do the deed, they burn the hardrives, and then douse the rest of the computer into a fire.
Experts say destroy the drive, this expert says format, use a data scrambler, and file shredder. Just pushing the delete button does not remove the recovery sector where you can restore the files. Encryption software also works but you want to make sure it's 256-bit or above.
Lisa with hammer: OMEAWA MOU SHINDERU
Thumbdrives: NANI
*slamming noises ensue in the background*
You mean there's still a chance my pr0n is still salvageable?
*hopeful tear on my eye*
Omg 😭🤣
Ridiculous!! People should know anything can be recovered by the right person and nothing is ever safe!
3:20 or just use professional software and do recovery tests to see if it deleted everything
"what's this?"
"homemade qorn."
*shocked*
Literally no one:
Inside Edition: "Little memory sticks"
Smashing drives isn't enough they still can recover by taking the memory chip and soldering it on another
SonGoku 522 yeah breaking the chip itself is what’s needed, not bending pins as they can be rerouted
You break or burn the chip it's that simple
@@williamnjagi2388 I like how they can't say burn it on TV because the nature people will attack them for polluting the earth lol
@@fisheyebrick1670 I mean idk it's not like that's what they were told to do or even thought of at the time.
Moral of the story: Keep your old USB Drives in a safety.
2:41 casually continues playing the research material
This’s so cool, now I can be 110% sure that my data is still left in the USB even though I deleted the data 😂
2:58 I knew this was gonna happen
When you delete something, you rewrite that something with a 0 and that's it, the file isn't gone, it's just hidden. If you really want to delete something forever, use the DoD or the Gutmann method that uses an algorithm that "messes up" the data.
Yep that's why i use Bleach Bit when i really want to get rid of something.
Lisa: do you want to do the honors?
Professor: sure
Lisa: looks at all his passwords
Nobody:
Inside Edition: *smashes thumb drive with hammer*
Yeah but it’s the same with recently deleted on iPhone like if the police gets in your phone or someone trained they can recover the thing you deleted even ‘forever’ 🤷🏼♀️
I never sell my used thumbdrive, because i use my thumbdrive until it dead (cannot be detected by OS anymore or ended as "raw" and cannot be re-formatted)
This is really scary. Shows how easy it is for someone to steal or ruin your life.
Don't ever sell anything you had stored stuff on. Including thumb drives, computer hard drives, external storage, etc. This is why when enterprises, business' and schools, etc sell used laptops they destroy and shred the drives and sell the computers without them.
@3:27 She missed all those flash-drives in a pile on the table... LOL
I format all my USB drives. Sometimes I smash or burn them 😈
formatting still won't delete the stuff permanently
Format doesn't do much. You have to overwrite the whole thing
@@mathewd3754 oh good thing i smash and burn them
@@aaron2024_1 hmm never thought of overwriting. Good thing I smash and burn them
3:26
THAT'S A LOTTA DAMAGE!
I save only my minecraft photos in these
You're welcome
*fortnite falls
I save G4Y smash Bros photos and cursed photos of barbecue chicken wings on there. I'm proud of myself!
3:33 the scariest part of this whole video.!
Who else remembers floppy discs 😂
i never used them but i’ve seen them on my grandmas basement computer
Me I remember floppy disk
As an IT security specialist I know how to safely wipe them to make sure they can’t ever be recovered but I can and do data recovery as needed.
*We love a good hammering specifically done by Lisa*
Thanks gonna go look for some used thumb drives now!
People still use those things??
Yes, Melissa. Most students have one. And some of them have look alike things called Juuls.
Floppy disks too
Whoever is selling them is doing what I did in uni you wait in the computer lab after a class and snag the usbs left by people then clear them and sell them
2:02 LMAO HIS REACTION
Aaeaeawwww SuPeRiseE!!!
Thumb drives, internal hard drives, external hard drives, just get overwritten when you delete the information. Like white-out on paper, the previous information is still there underneath. The best way is to destroy the thumb driver.
You can also flood it with layers of new data so the old data is unrecoverable among all the mess of code.
2:44 we all know what that girl was doing on the video.. 😂
Disgusting
What is she doing
Technically I'm never throwing away my pen drive till it's completely dead itself
"Oh SUpRisEd HOw CoULd YoU gEt ThiS" am I the only one who laughed so much.
Used thumb drive prices on ebay just shot up 1000%..............
Thanks Lisa guerero
Don’t be broke
I always keep my drives because I know that they will never be deleted
Ooooh an investigation!
Lisa gurrero would've confronted the thumb drives
Another way to have your data not stolen is to turn off quick format
1:15
"We've got your offensive and defensive philosophy"
"That's how we win games"
They use the luck of the Irish from that one basketball movie. Oh no!
Best way to delete them without killing the drive itself;
Magnets. A really big magnet.
The good old magnet trick only works on hard drives since they depend on magnets
3:24 Me smashing my pc when my connection is lost
Her: OnLy 50 DoLlArS
Me: OmG wTh DoEs ShE mEaN wItH oNlY 50 dOlLaRs
And that's why I smash my flash drives before throwing them out
I dont understand why would people just throw away perfectly working thumb drive... There is always time when we need it.
I was thinking the same I have 3 of my own thumb drives because I have to work with a lot of essays and video editing for college and the stuff I don't I delete them after I transfer them to my computer
When your done with a thumb drive , expose it to the air and it deletes it. Or put under water to make more sure. Or the best best way i think is bend it
Set it on fire for more safety
I still have my old 512MB Kingston pen drive, I didn't throw it
@@necouhgr Bit dangerous though
03:25 Well they say smash the drivers, not the desk
When I get done with a memory stick I normally take it out side and. Use my 50 lbs slang hammer
I can´t belive lisa is back
as soon as i hear 'homemade porn' i went to my editor and tryed to take off the blur
-_-
You cannot take off blur in a photo/video. Once that is on there, its on there for good.
I can clearly see what's happening from the motion lmao.
I thought she was suffocating herself with a pie, @@xxxod ...😞😞
3:26 she looks so happy
2:46 why y’all watching it lol
3:25 That’s a lot of damage!
*Lisa lost her thumbs drive.. it had her Nudes* 🤐
Integra DIY thats hot
I bought a used laptop from a person on Facebook Marketplace, they said they factory reset it and I saw they did but, after some digging, I found lots of personal information, I was so amazed I contacted the person and warned them of their mistake.
Oh I thought those were juuls....
How old r u..
And What i say is dont destroy them because of the following reasons:
1. we can keep it in a safe place (like your drawers or cupboards of shelves)
2. It would be a waste of money
3. Anything you forgot to store will be destroyed along with it
2:40 Lisa had to watch it and her face killed me!
when you “delete” things it just puts a value as empty where other data would just go over that data and the old things can be recovered or corrupt some parts
Before the video I was also thinking to smash them with a hammer XD
Lisa: *smashes any object*
Phil Swift: HOLD MY FLEX TAPE
This is a race and your stuck in last place
3:24 JEEZ LISA CALM DOWN
Watch out Lisa do be coming for your thumb drives
Omg lmaoooooooo
Those USB drives that was thrown away is The GOLDEN treasure for thieves
Let's go look for Hillary's device!!!!!!
win loose Hillary is the new thanos
@@djharvey8005 hell yeah she is!!!
That’s why you always keep them. Never throw them away.
🔥🔥🔥😈I would burn it with FIRE!!!😈🔥🔥🔥
Why am I not surprised
No views and 5 likes UA-cam is drunk again
When a video first comes out, it takes an hour or so for the views and likes to correspond accordingly
S R that’s the joke
Dude was going at it in the video
Marcel got that killa step back
Bruh just format the drive and don’t enable quick format