phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
From Metro News today:
Two top McGuinty aides charged in gas plants computer probe
.... Faist was paid $10,000 for wiping the drives out of the taxpayer-funded Liberal caucus budget, police allege. The party subsequently repaid the sum to the public treasury. ....
Ten grand to erase some hard drives?
Boot a Linux CD or USBKey. Change to the root directory. rm -rf *.
Done.
Or maybe it was $50.00 to erase the drives and $9950.00 for 'discretion'.
For less than that you could probably destroy the drives and pay back their depreciated cost. Beats finding out that someone's forensic recovery skills trump your data-deletion-fu. I'm told the Pentagon leans toward taking its busted hard drives to a nearby army base and melting them down with thermite. I've found that a .25" drill bit tends to go dull really fast drilling through old hard drives, but a pneumatic chisel with a pointy bit turns them into unreadable scrap pretty quickly. The project being worth $10k to someone does rather say that someone found that a better bargain than going to jail. -- Anthony de Boer