Comments on: Wiping an iPhone (more thoroughly)

By: David Williams

David Williams — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:27:49 +0000

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By: James

James — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:49:40 +0000

@The first 3 commenters – do you enjoy doing this on every. single. post? Seriously, your day is so empty you have to fill it up bitching about the content of a blog you get to read for free? Get an RSS reader, and you waste — AT MOST — half a second of your life scanning and processing the headline before ignoring it.

Besides, some of us can’t be bothered with Engadget (I call it the Weblogs Inc Firehose), so this is news to me. Just because it doesn’t involve hookup up a JTAG doesn’t mean it’s not a hack, and possibly a useful one (if you own an old iPhone, I guess) at that.

By: ejonesss

ejonesss — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:14:24 +0000

another way to purge the data is.

1. if you can open up the phone and remove the hard drive you can get one of those micro drive to ide converters and slave the drive to the mac and do a full erase via disk utility then put the drive back in and restore the phone.

2. have the at&t store deactivate the phone and then maybe re activate it with a dummy account (so any at&t data that lives on the un accessible partition will be written over by a dummy account.

as of your user data like the phone book and such should live on the user partition so you can write over with a large text file.

if worse comes to worse and you dont want to or dont care about getting money for it you can.

1. keep it for parts.

2. keep it for target practice.

3. recycle it at a local recycling center that takes electronics (make sure they have a policy that does not allow anyone to take or remove electronics from the bins)

4. take it to a recycling place that will let you watch as they run it through shredding machines that shred electronics to insure total destruction

By: rm -rf zoink*

rm -rf zoink* — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:54:41 +0000

@2: +1. We already scan Engadget to get our nauseating iPhone news and endless genuflections to companies named after fruit that have connections with Isaac Newton; we don’t need it here too! What we want are schematics, circuit diagrams. Oh wait, now I have to “rm” myself…

By: Natboy

Natboy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:48:55 +0000

Hackaday is dead. I give up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:37:08 +0000

I tried to make a post similar to yours, but hack-a-day wouldnt let me make it. odd. Anyway, i find it cool that i also quoted that little gem from the site.

this editor is amazing, his last 3 posts have been off-topic crap with no relevance to this site.

seriously though, if i want to read this crap i will go to another site. please, if this is all your going to post here, GTFO.

You have been given the great responsibility of helping to post stories to the main page, and you have shown to us, the HaD community, that you do not deserve this privilege.

Your job as an editor is to find unique, inspired, ingenious hacks from the obscure corners of the internet.

You really do need to read your comments, and I am of the opinion right now that you do not even care about the people who read HaD.

I am the same anon from your other shitty posts, have fun!

By: fuzion

fuzion — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:13:44 +0000

“hack a day serves up a fresh hack each day, every day from around the web and a special how-to hack each week.”

please remember this next time you’re digging through engadget (or digg) for something to copy and paste.