byronglimish wrote:
So smashing phones and bleach bit wash is recommended to government people? Where did you get that?
Even when a impending subpoena is on the menu? Perm, it's a matter of public record that the Clintons have destroyed much of their history of business. The Progs destroy all incriminating evidence, just like a seasoned bookie. Mueller tried to lose the FBI emails of Strzok and his whore 'Page'.. You are fairly smart and know what's up in these cases but feel the need to defend criminal behavior.
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https://www.wired.com/2016/09/actually-clinton-destroyed-phones-better/FOLLOWING FRIDAY AFTERNOON'S FBI release of documents about Hillary Clinton’s private email servers, Julian Assange, CNN, and Donald Trump have all railed against the revelation that her aide smashed two of her 13 private BlackBerrys with a hammer in an attempt to destroy them. Trump, with his usual talent for avoiding nuance, summed up the criticism: “People who have nothing to hide don’t smash phones with hammers." But ask a few security and forensics experts, and they'll tell you Clinton's mistake wasn't destroying the devices. If anything, she should have wrecked them more thoroughly.
Whether you're a Secretary of State with a phone full of classified documents or an average sext-sending citizen, data removal is a crucial security step before you let a device leave your control or recycle it. And security experts agree there's at least one surefire way to be certain that data is truly removed and unrecoverable: k**l the hardware. "You destroy that certain piece that’s storing the critical information, and there’s little chance you’re going to get it back," says Eric Brown, a lab manager at the forensic data-recovery firm Flashback Data. "It doesn’t matter how much money you throw at it or how much experience you have."
If Clinton had in fact used a federally-issued Blackberry like President Obama does, it might well have been destroyed after she used it, too. In accordance with a 2012 General Services Administration bulletin, all agencies must either recycle or donate used electronics for reuse. The State Department abides by that policy, too; if Clinton had been using State-issued devices, they would have gone through a similar, if more standardized, process of data deletion. A State Department official explained in a statement to WIRED that "department security policies mandate that all electronic devices are cleared of sensitive or classified information prior to reuse or disposal.” Some devices are wiped and reused, in other words, while others are destroyed as part of the recycling process.
There are plenty of ways to approach data destruction through software-based deletion or overwriting. But hardware destruction has the advantage of simplicity; An amateur might not be certain that a software deletion tool has rendered data unrecoverable against advanced forensic techniques, given that it is sometimes possible to restore "deleted" data. In mechanical hard drives, for example, the system may mark data as deleted but leave it in place until it is overwritten by new inputs. But smash storage hardware to small enough bits, and not even the cleverest forensic techniques can put the data back together coherently. "You can easily physically destroy things," says Brown. "You just need to make sure you're thorough in doing it."
The real issue with the Clinton staff's practice of destroying her Blackberrys is that question of thoroughness. The same staffer who bought and set up Clinton's server told the FBI that of the 13 BlackBerry smartphones Clinton used while at the State Department, there were “two instances where he destroyed Clinton’s old mobile devices by breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer," according to the FBI's report. In a situation like Clinton's, there's no way to know whether breaking a device in half or wailing on it with a Ball-Peen actually destroyed the memory chip holding the phone's data. "Destruction doesn't always mean destroyed," Brown says.