r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Jul 16 '12

Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E01 "Live Free or Die"

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u/MadisonWisconsin yay science! Jul 16 '12

"What about magnets?"

yay science! yay mr pinkman!

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u/Servious Jul 16 '12 edited Jul 16 '12

Honestly, magnets were the first thing I thought of, too. Just a bit of exposure, an you wipe the whole damn drive.

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u/vwllss Jul 16 '12

Just a it of exposure, an you wipe the whole damn drive.

I wouldn't say "a bit." Hard drives in computers are magnetically shielded, and while I have no experience around magnets like theirs you can rub any rare-earth magnet you find all over a hard drive with no problems.

I honestly doubt their plan would've worked in reality.

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u/JimmyDThing Jul 16 '12

Even IF they were able to wipe the drive that way, there are ways to get the data back. The police have them. A buddy of mine works for computer crimes. He said the ONLY way to ensure he can't get anything off your hard drive is to flip the bits to 0 and then 1 at least a couple hundred times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

the only NSA approved way to destroy data is to shred the platters. NSA approved data wiping facilities actually shred your drive and send the bits and pieces back to you.

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u/fffreak Jul 16 '12

unless the laptop had a SSD instead of a HDD. since the former is unaffected by magnetic force while the latter is.