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Dale wrote: |
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> Grant wrote: |
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>>Thanks Peter. That is quite contrary to what most of the other posts |
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>>in this thread are saying. Those are all just rumors and myths? |
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>>- Grant |
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> I think we all know it can be done. |
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No, we don't. |
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> Governments do it all the time. |
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> Data recevery people do it too. |
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Do they? Why don't they advertise this? |
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> Years ago I worked at a computer place |
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> and the hard drive crashed. The heads physically pulled up the magnetic |
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> media in a couple places. They still got almost 80% of the data back. |
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AGAIN: That's a died hard disk. That's *COMPLETELY* different |
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matter. And if you read what he wrote, you'll find that he |
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also said that recovering data from died hardware is possible. |
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> I'm sure the NSA, CIA and a few others can get data back off just about |
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> anything. It's just a matter of how much money you want to spend and |
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> how much time you want to put into it. |
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Interesting point, though - if your data is worth just a |
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few thousand bucks, than it will most of the time not make |
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sense to waste the money on it. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a |
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toilet seat. |
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-- Michael McShane |
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