Guest guest Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Okay Everyone (including Graham!) Regarding Medical Records Sold on Ebay post: http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/blog/your-medical-records-sold-on-ebay/ I am at the MAC store now and I am again told that the ONLY way to be sue (typo - sure) that information is completely unretrievable from a discarded hard drive is physical destruction or running an industrial magnet over the thing. My next stop is Schnitzer Steel where I will see if they are able to stick my hard drive on one of those giant magnets that picks up old cars. I'm told that should work. A good field trip. I'll post video to YouTube. Pamela Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Sorry .. but just keep the hard drive at home! > Okay Everyone (including Graham!) > > Regarding Medical Records Sold on Ebay post: > http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/blog/your-medical-records-sold-on-ebay/ > > I am at the MAC store now and I am again told that the ONLY > way to be sue (typo - sure) that information is completely unretrievable > from a discarded hard drive is physical destruction or running an industrial > magnet over the thing. <sigh> -- Graham Chiu http://www.compkarori.co.nz:8090/ Synapse - the use from anywhere EMR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 > Okay Everyone (including Graham!) > > Regarding Medical Records Sold on Ebay post: > http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/blog/your-medical-records-sold-on-ebay/ > > I am at the MAC store now and I am again told that the ONLY > way to be sue (typo - sure) that information is completely unretrievable > from a discarded hard drive is physical destruction or running an industrial > magnet over the thing. Now, who would you like to believe. Some guy at a store, or me? ( with references of course ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence Feenberg, an economist at the private National Bureau of Economic Research, claims that the chances of overwritten data being recovered from a modern hard drive amount to " urban legend " .[3] He also points to the " 18½ minute gap " Rose Woods created on a tape of Nixon discussing the Watergate break-in. Erased information in the gap has not been recovered, and Feenberg claims doing so would be an easy task compared to recovery of a modern high density digital signal. As of November 2007, the United States Department of Defense considers overwriting acceptable for clearing magnetic media within the same security area/zone, but not as a sanitization method. Only degaussing or physical destruction is acceptable for the latter.[4] On the other hand, according to the 2006 NIST Special Publication 800-88 (p. 7): " Studies have shown that most of today’s media can be effectively cleared by one overwrite " and " for ATA disk drives manufactured after 2001 (over 15 GB) the terms clearing and purging have converged. " [1] An analysis by et al. of recovery techniques, including magnetic force microscopy, also concludes that a single wipe is all that is required for modern drives. They point out that the long time required for multiple wipes " has created a situation where many organisations ignore the issue all together – resulting in data leaks and loss. " [5] > > My next stop is Schnitzer Steel where I will see if they are able to > stick my hard drive on one of those giant magnets that picks up > old cars. I'm told that should work. > > A good field trip. I'll post video to YouTube. > > Pamela -- Graham Chiu http://www.compkarori.co.nz:8090/ Synapse - the use from anywhere EMR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 that's what I thought I have a hard drive sitting around. on the table. It's cute. Sorry .. but just keep the hard drive at home! > Okay Everyone (including Graham!) > > Regarding Medical Records Sold on Ebay post: > http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/blog/your-medical-records-sold-on-ebay/ > > I am at the MAC store now and I am again told that the ONLY > way to be sue (typo - sure) that information is completely unretrievable > from a discarded hard drive is physical destruction or running an industrial > magnet over the thing. <sigh> -- Graham Chiu http://www.compkarori.co.nz:8090/ Synapse - the use from anywhere EMR. -- MD ph fax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 I'm keeping the hard drive at home. A few years from now will take a hammer to it. Don't forget to take the hard drives out of your fax/copiers too. Lots of medical information there! Only takes about 12 hours to get the infro with free online software! Yikes. To: Sent: Tue, April 5, 2011 8:18:48 AMSubject: Re: Hard Drive Disposal that's what I thought I have a hard drive sitting around. on the table. It's cute. Sorry .. but just keep the hard drive at home! > Okay Everyone (including Graham!)>> Regarding Medical Records Sold on Ebay post:> http://www.idealmedicalcare.org/blog/your-medical-records-sold-on-ebay/>> I am at the MAC store now and I am again told that the ONLY> way to be sue (typo - sure) that information is completely unretrievable> from a discarded hard drive is physical destruction or running an industrial> magnet over the thing.<sigh>-- Graham Chiuhttp://www.compkarori.co.nz:8090/Synapse - the use from anywhere EMR. -- MD ph fax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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