Internet history cleaners....

[GettingLean]

Like said above, smash the living shit out of it! Not in half, i'm talking like bits and pieces! Nowadays, you can pick up another computer for less than $400. If you get busted and all the evidence is on you hard drive, $400 is gonna seem like pocket change compared to what your lawyer fees will be. The average lawyer for these cases charge an average of $5000-$7000. Knowing that, i think it'll be a little less painful to take a sledgehammer and beat the living shit out of your computer LOL.

GettingLean

 

[GettingLean]

P.S.----- not to mention court costs/fines which will be a pretty penny. Then, of coarse, answering to a probation officer for the next few years while he has a dog leash on you isnt really a picnic either! Just go POSTAL on your hard drive, you wont regret it.

 

[Hugh Gellatts]

"Just go POSTAL on your hard drive"


i wonder if that expression still makes any sense? now when i think of someone "going postal" i picture a mailman gasping for breath and then keeling over, dead from anthrax.

 

[occam]

The above posts are correct. The police have shops on contract (and FBI) that can retrieve surprising amounts of data. If you think there is going to be a problem ( and you usually don't) remove the hard drive and do something with it. This kind of forensic data retrieval is more and more common. Do the smart thing and have a removable hard drive bay or a laptop that can be disposed of in a hurry.

 

[HelloNY]

Its cheap and secure

Why take a chance when a new hard drive is just like 40 dollars

Take your hard drive destory it and buy a new one.

most cleaners will only delete internet temp files and cookies not data on your hard drive and even if they would I can recover most of it.

 

[acneman]

i told you so about the formating

ive got a prog called directory snoop

its years old and will pull up data thats been erased even after a format

 

[Mad_maxx18]

thank you gentlemen for the responses it was indeed most helpful.