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The cops pay Anon a visit (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 34 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

Step 1: Back up important files
Step 2: boot from live Linux USB
Step 3: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvmeX && dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/nvmeX Repeat as many times as you wish

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Use a live Linux ISO that can run entirely in memory, and run step 3 in an infinite loop. Take the USB with you and leave the PC running.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm dumb, what does this do?

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    Write random data in the drive over and over again, with one or two pass there are some sophisticated techniques that can get some sliver of data out if the random. But with 3 4 passes and more it's statistically unlikely they can recover anything.

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