7stars wrote...
You could just destroy the evidence. smash the hard drive with a hammer (its harder then you might expect though, they don't call it hard for nothing), then toss it in a river.
lmao, i did that a while back. when i was younger i downloaded a ton of fucked up shit, including a fair bit of underage (hey i was underage too, i was simply looking for porn in my own age group). then when i turned 18 i realized i could totally be arrested for it. in a fit of serious paranoia i disposed of said hard drive in said fashion. of course i no longer download that stuff now. underage, not loli. as far as im aware, loli is legal in US. i hope it is...
To destroy a hard drive what you need to use is a magnet...
...preferably the one on the hard-drive itself, to a damn strong magnetron (in a microwave) will do in a pinch.
A hammer's no good. I know that several people were convicted over bits and pieces of data recovered from a physically damaged, but unerased hard drive.
There's a well known data-recovery firm Kürt Inc. that published stories on how they could prove the owner of the smashed (by an industrial press!) hard drive was trying to counterfeit money.