From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 22:18:23 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4825340 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22a.google.com (mail-ig0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66077D2B for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f170.google.com with SMTP id l13so44601140iga.1 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:18:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=iE2SIVPS9Oti/ZRvvrxEhNpy9aIVzHiUV93oKw5Cd44=; b=mvdNNtQiPLtwa3SCb0KU1nfQ41x7g0h/IK8hiXOvtSE0wkVq7rU3VQe50iMSoczKHZ KInyNnMFMRDgKhTwnpRtdYHHKTwbnKVqyxDrnjsSilgS2O1G6AV8ZxE5gBwWSE7sY6UV 06HGv8EO4IlkbXnEkqzQg1G1gj0bL0raV33cFDV3qBWdvAEo8i3rT7m1wgjOcbqbCa7D 79vdZys1oros3SdYB9dNqGBlX0DkCoyodRGSdLfKwrh5pLbu/vT9JOxxPSnv0541NIVk erx/0yoFJKdfWWEnMpaqgxjniVEajNDEFHKaKWbxZx77lwRFaKQOnfFiaCZZek+FFdRY 7i2g== X-Received: by 10.107.164.15 with SMTP id n15mr36534596ioe.82.1424211502801; Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:18:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f1sm10813596igt.14.2015.02.17.14.18.20 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:18:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54E3BE22.8090204@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 15:18:10 -0700 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it? References: <54E39F83.70002@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:18:23 -0000 On 02/17/2015 02:04 PM, Michael Powell wrote: > jd1008 wrote: > > [snip] > > Remove the cover. Remove the platters. Smash all platters with large sledge > hammer until all pieces are fairly small. Melt material with oxyacetylene > welders torch. Repeat smashing with hammer. Soak for few hours in > hydrofluoric acid. Rinse and allow to dry. Grind material into a fine > particulate dust. Dispose of out the back of airplane while flying or drop > into convenient nearby volcano. That might be good enough. > > Send the electronic components to Kaspersky for analysis. > > :-) > > -Mike > > Well, it's getting to the point where none of the of hundreds or even thousands of millions of lines of source code of operating systems, libraries and applications has been thoroughly examined by very capable engineers who could discern the presence of trojans and backdoors. So, it goes without saying that all OS'es are infected.