Discussion Kill your PC

[kkatt]

I have invested in a kickstarter. It's this key that you plug into the USB port and it just wipes your device immediately. It works on all kinds of devices. Sounds perfect for so many people here.

 

[Kramer]

I plan to smash the hard drive.

 

[kkatt]

Believe me. I have had the police digital forensics search my shit.
Which is why (a) I brought this thing and (b) I would never think I could destroy a hard drive beyond rescue

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Sounds dangerous lol, imagine someone using it to wipe proof of their own misdeeds on someone else's computer, or some prankster using it at public places like libraries, schools, or government buildings.

That said, I'd still want one for when I go actually.

 

[waived]

Nothing against op but I would be pretty cautious trusting this to any extent until it has been proven.

 

[kkatt]

Well, they're cheap. I've picked up 3,which will be available early next year. But any kickstarter is a risk. From what I've looked into of it, it looks legit. So I'm sure there'll be a couple of people out there that would want one for whatever reason.

 

[Soulless Angel]

in the right circumstances this could be a really good thing, but in the wrong hands, Nah!

 

[Wayfaerer]

I'd bet a grand that that's a scam.

 

[Ren Elsie Jewelria]

I plan to smash the hard drive.

Same here.

@kkatt what's the problem in destroying a regular HDD beyond repair? Smashing it open, retrtieving the plates, cutting them into pieces and scattering. You think any authorities would try to do anything with that, especially in case of some regular suicider?

 

[Lupgevif]

Just use Darik's Boot and Nuke and dump it into a body of water while it is still on. Free of charge, no need to give money to a product that promises nothing new and doesn't even exist yet.

 

[woxihuanni]

Can it be inserted into a butt and wipe malfunctioning brain clean? Wanna try it on someone I know

 

[turin]

i've read a couple times in here about wiping hardrives.. why's that? because of suicide stuff?

 

[waived]

i've read a couple times in here about wiping hardrives.. why's that? because of suicide stuff?

For anyone(s) who want to look at what isn't theirs.

 

[grungeCat]

If you plan to non-recoverably cipher your data then I think downloading and executing WannaCry or Petya ransomware is a better opition. It's for free, costs no effort and is very effective. No one is able to decipher data destroyed by that viruses without paying the ransom to the hackers.

 

[Deleted member 23374]

Some information concerning SDD erasure

How to securely wipe files from SSD drive?

When trying to securely wipe SSDs, we have several problems: SSDs wear out after a limited amount of erase cycles SSDs have a controller that dynamically maps LBAs (logical block addresses used by...

askubuntu.com

You can boot any freely available live distro and do the same thing for free.

 

[Eternal Pessimist]

I don't think this is a scam but it doesn't seem to do anything more than free tools already do. Wiping the device is also not immediate but can take hours depending on your drive. The best thing to do is to use encryption on your PC and use a strong password. That way the data on the drive is unreadable without the password even if you don't erase it.

 

[netrezven]

I didn't dig into this, but if there is no encryption, whatever you put in the usb - it won't wipe anything. Some microprocessors might lite up, but the information is still on you HDD, and I'm quite sure for SSD too. Wiping takes time, the only fast way is fire or the microwave. I wouldn't even trust a hammer for this.

 

[Deleted member 23374]

Would an acid bath be enough to skunk hard disk plates, meaning like the stuff used for etching,? if anyone knows.

 

[waived]

I don't think this is a scam but it doesn't seem to do anything more than free tools already do. Wiping the device is also not immediate but can take hours depending on your drive. The best thing to do is to use encryption on your PC and use a strong password. That way the data on the drive is unreadable without the password even if you don't erase it.

My issue is their secret patent pending process which can over complicate and allow for other issues aside from a linear encrypt/decrypt. Why do they need to re-engineer the usage of blowfish 448? As someone pointed out above, the encryption options already exist and things like this tend to take advantage of people who haven't spend the time to learn about it.

 

[Symbiote]

Can it be inserted into a butt and wipe malfunctioning brain clean? Wanna try it on someone I know

Only if you're married to a robot that has a USB butthole.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

Only if you're married to a robot that has a USB butthole.

I thought all robots had usb buttholes these days.

 

[Symbiote]

I thought all robots had usb buttholes these days.

They may have USB dongles or extensions.

 

[Deleted member 1465]

They may have USB dongles or extensions.

I think using a dongle in the wrong port is frowned upon by our robot overlords

 

[Deleted member 23374]

I really need a defrag.... sigh...

 

[waived]

@re_pete_x

Just use linux.

 

[Deleted member 23374]

I do, =P

holy crap my typing is getting worse... that was just a lame punny kind of thing, i'm not confident enough to go waving my dongle around.

 

[DocNo]

afaik - if you don't use encrypted images or drives - one possibility is software which overwrites the whole drive/partition with data/trash and then erases it.
some software even let u set how many times this process of writing trash and erasing should be repeated.
but takes some time. for big drives hours.

should be even freeware or shareware available for that. at least for win systems. linux, os x - i dont know.

 

[kkatt]

Same here.

@kkatt what's the problem in destroying a regular HDD beyond repair? Smashing it open, retrtieving the plates, cutting them into pieces and scattering. You think any authorities would try to do anything with that, especially in case of some regular suicider?

I can only say what I know from being investigated by police digital forensics
I just had an update from the creator,so I thought I'd share with you what I have. I'm not sure that I should be doing this, but if I were to trust anyone,it would be this group.
I'm sorry if they're a bit muddled up; I don't see too well. There are more,but we can only upload 8 attachments.

 

[kkatt]

My 3 keys just arrived

 

[kkatt]

Who wants one??
Message me.