So my friend's HDD just shit itself...

So my friend's HDD just shit itself. He says he wants to send it off to a clean room but is worried about having a bunch of loli porn and mass shooter manifestos saved on to it. Do you guys think the data recovery dudes will look through it and try to call the cops on him?

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Why would he be worried if they save stuff to it. You are not getting that drive back.

Clean room data recovery companies generally have a contract with you. Read a contract, also many companies use Data Recovery services and many of those companies have NDA's that they must adhere to.

I think he's saying that his "friend" already has that stuff saved on it and he doesn't want people to see it and flip out.

NDAs don't override laws.

Degauss that shit and get a new hard drive. Why take the risk of some Geek-Squad tier manlet finding your stash?

buy a fresh drive. if YOUR FRIEND wants his data recovered from the hard drive, torrent EaseUS and rip whatever shit your friend really must have back.

>asking for a friend
We know it's for yourself, buddy. My advice would be to forget about it unless you have anything actually worth money. If you do, then it's probably fine whatever you have on there, just do your best to negotiate.
If it's literally all porn and bullshit, don't bother with data recovery at all. Start from square one and make backups this time (and use an SSD you dipshit).

shred that bitch

>not having backups in the year of our lord jesus christ 2000+19

ebay edu account with unlimited gdrive storage is like 4 bucks. No excuse.

>gdrive
I said backups, not voluntary NSA datamining

so encrypt it

I stopped reading at your friends ADHD

Even if they look at it which i think is not likely,

even if they find stuff that's weird not as if the cops are gonna get involved unless its child porn or literally snuff films that look home made.

That's what I was thinking.
It's just loli porn and gore / from Christchurch and isis.

That stuff isn't reeeeally illegal right? If it was this site would be taken down. It all came from here anyway.

It depends on your local laws. Especially loli.

Don't you fucking move, pal. We're coming to help you.

why the fuck would he pay for data recovery and risk other people seeing his sketchy shit when he can just replace the drive and restore the backup

The NSA is already accessing the Jow Forums logs to find who you are.

Be ready to be vanned.

Spooky

Dunno if loli is actually illegal but you must be fucking stupid if you think the reason borderline material is """legal""" on Jow Forums isn't just because of the material and temporal cost to law enforcement to track you down.

If they had a convenient manner of arresting you on that shit then they would, cold stop. Some Best Buy tech holding onto hard evidence of something you did? They report it and you're getting arrested, cold stop.

Doesn't even matter if you get away with it, if you think publicly being arrested won't affect your life (and that the people trying to get you put in prison don't know that) then you're just retarded and should turn yourself in, even the government can take better care of your life than you at that point.

It does, othervise companies would be sued much more often.

Don't risk it bro.
On one level, there's nothing reeelly illegal but on another level you're the pedofile nazi school-shooter of their nightmares.
You can't predict how normalfags will react.

Cool. That means I can start a hitman company as long as all my employees sign NDAs.

...you're pretty dumb.

loli is illegal in many US states (Christains AND liberals don't like it so it's not going to be "just redstates" or "just bluestates".
With the manafestos: you might be put on a terrorism watch list.

Also, it sounds as if nothing of value was lost.

Just turn yourself in, pedo. You are a cancer in the world.

You're right...

Yup. That IS how it works.

correct me if i'm wrong but I don't think these places are legally obliged to look into the partitions that they recover

So they're not going to check to see if anything is corrupted before sending you your data you paid 300+ bucks to recover. Makes sense

Literally how do you be this dumb

>cold stop

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I don't know about the data recovery guys, but I'm calling the cops right now

>loli
depends on the state
>shooter manifestos
free fucking speech
might get on a watchlist, but you should be clear

Does the data even matter enough to warrant the expense of recovery?

>Americans

>drawings are illegal
only in the land of freedom

>Bytes that resemble a child porn video are illegal

It should be completely fine. Tell your "friend" to go ahead, post haste.

Get a cloning machine and try that first

>SSDs
>Storage
>Porn
How about no, also SSDs are terrible for storage, they crash and burn with no survivors and are generally unrecoverable should anything go wrong.

That's why you make backups
Nonetheless, SSD tech is less likely to fail during any given year and cheaper than being a dumbass and busting your drive just to think you can always do data recovery

Why the fuck are you relying on a single drive for anything you care about? Are you braindead? It will always crash eventually, why do retards act surprised when it inevitably happens?