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In reply to the discussion: Why do you think Adam Lanza destroyed his computer? [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)54. Demolishing the platters once you get it open
is pretty much the easiest thing to do to make sure no one ever gets information off of the drive. You can low level format, fdisk, reformat, encrypt, but all of those take time. Smashing the platter guarantees the data is gone and no one can access it.
Or, just whack it several times with a sledgehammer and don't bother opening it.
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We have those screwdrivers too. Someone gave me a nice kit of specialty screwdrivers one Christmas.
FSogol
Dec 2012
#29
Ashamed of what was left on a computer? BUT he shot his mother in the face 4 times,
ywcachieve
Dec 2012
#63
Other news sites makes it sound more crude, like he just took a hammer to the tower
ck4829
Dec 2012
#10
That's what I'm talking about, the direct approach, don't leave it to someone else.
bemildred
Dec 2012
#74
I read somewhere that he was part of a LAN club, where members got together with their computers
JaneyVee
Dec 2012
#5
I've always been told to only way to really be sure no one has access to your private data from a HD
Lone_Star_Dem
Dec 2012
#20
With a tool such as CCleaner you can actually wipe your hard drive pretty clean.
redgreenandblue
Dec 2012
#81
He'd been to the gun range quite a bit, that's the sort of thing that gets discussed there
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#40
Can his ISP retrieve his internet postings? Just been wondering about that.
Little Star
Dec 2012
#72
Possibly to erase all traces of his mother trying to commit him to a mental facility.
JimDandy
Dec 2012
#87
If his Mother did it she would probably have just smashed the computer. But the person
Auntie Bush
Dec 2012
#96