Quote from: lightfoot on Today at 02:41:28 AM

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That poor slob in Britain is still trying to get permission to search the landfill for his bitcoins. Worth 250 million.

I can't think about how much that could wreck someone's life.

Even if he were to find the computer, the hard drive is probably way beyond any humanly possible recovery.

He better go to some therapy that helps him let it go...

The Ironkey guy has a better chance... even if I don't fully trust his story.

Eh, it's possible. If it was a glass/ceramic disk then the data can be recovered. Remember that OnTrak recovered data from a disk that came down through the fireball of Columbia and spent a few weeks in a swamp.

I've been doing some data recovery on older drives, the power of a Raspberry Pi to read the tracks in analog mode and tease out the data is stunning.

Meantime. Fed money printers go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

https://i.imgur.com/lEjMssF.mp4

A glass/ceramic disk have a good chance of being already been shattered during the process... but even if not.. this many years with cycles of wet/dry, gases and who knows what else chemical reactions in the bottom layers of the landfield... If that doesn't corrode (the magnetic layer) it beyond recovery... donno... would really like to see that.

What kind of hack do you use to read the disks in analog mode? Firmware mod or you do attach some gadget directly to the head controller and dump the analog data of all the surface for post processing? Asking for a friend Tongue