Originally Posted by
408MIKE
I don't follow your secure wipe advice.
No one really wants to use apple software to erase apple hardware I would hope. Booting into a linux live cd on a mac you want to clean seems counterproductive. Under the control of the same firmware how can anyone be sure the partition tables you're seeing is accurate? You aren't ever going to be SURE your HD is clean until it is out of the old machine. Period.
Well my advice was not for me, it was for someone one assumes doesn't have corrupted firmware although of course, you're in philosophical territory - because all firmware is, by definition, corruption.
But yes you're right about the controllers. Where were you 10 months ago when I was asking everyone "how do I zero-fill my controllers" and they would just laugh at me. It's funny, they thought I'd stop asking.
But I've never gotten the answer.
Reformat the hard drive via DU as ex fat pull the hard drive connect to a known clean windows pc run dban after 6 hours you have a fully wiped hard drive. Reformat via DU to GUID and you are golden.
What's DU stand for?
But where do I find this "known clean windows pc"? I'm not joking. Every computer in Thailand is corrupted (99% confidence interval). Actually, like maybe the 30th internet cafe I tried I'm 95% certain was clean. It was tucked away in an alley and I think, hadn't had a customer yet (my custom, whilst valuable, isn't normally cause for celebration).
It certainly wasn't that time. I only go to net cafes with brand new SD cards and flash drives. SanDisk, as you may know, is one of the largest and -- respected -- multi-nationals. I used scissors to cut apart the factory packaging on my SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and inserted it into the USB drive far more cautiously and tentatively than would appear sane. I planned on downloading a non-corrupted ISO, or something.
But something else happened.
An autoplay dialog popped up and I was being asked by SanDisk whether I wanted to try out Google (this hot new search engine) or eBay (which seemed to be a global marketplace for products). I cannot make this up. This was the question SanDisk was asking me, whilst it simultaneously installed .NET 2.0 Framework behind the Google/eBay window I closed in disgust.
I stared at this horrifying scene like an orangutan, .NET 2.0 concluded auto-installing and the system rebooted without my touching anything. When I booted back in, XP looked like every Windows installation I'd seen in 2011. Horrified, I cut power to the machine. And nervously, slid one chair over to turn the powered down machine on. And then another chair. And another.
Maybe the 30th internet cafe I tried I'm 95% certain was clean. Was.
Not sure about firmware- sneaky caches are hidden all around our machines. For example the dvd optical drive has like a 1k cache, the isight camera, keyboard, mouse, the theoretical hidden camera that you can't even fooking see etc etc. Hackers (highly competent ones) have proven viruses can be written to attack just about anything that receives power, even THE FUCKING BATTERY.
Yes, I know all this. I have learned each of these things the hard way. Everything - and I really do mean everything - is corrupted, i.e. unserviceable. Hah. Literally unserviceable. AppleCare and iServe stores REFUSE to entertain conversation about servicing the corruption I show them. It's very easy really, I don't mean to brag. I install the UEFI self-certification testing kit and run through the thousands of tests which say, well tens of thousands of fail logs say, LOL.
But tell me more about clearing my SuperDrive cache please? I cannot even find a driver newer than 2006 for this filthy 'accessory'. My SDcard slots are all the most corrupted of all IO ports, followed closely by my internal USB hubs which make literally no sense but w/e - it all kind of makes sense after SanDisk. I know what's going on.
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