I didn't think this aired till the 17th for some reason. Fucking psyched!
First ep was pretty fucking good.
Proposing title of the thread be changed to "Magnets, how do they work?" Walt is slipping into full-on badass as a lifestyle mode. Should be fun to watch.
Ya. I knew he was going to do that too, lol. All the same though, I was laughing when it happened.
I can't stand Walt's family. The kid, the wife, or the sister-in-law. All are very annoying and useless. The brother-in-law however intrigues me and I like. It's like a duality, but only one side is aware of the whole game while the other is following small trails half blind.
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Episode delivered.
Its still the darkly amusing series that it always was. Now with more giant magnets ofc.
It was a fucking amazing start
I'm really looking forward to and hoping that the episode is a sign of a paradigm shift in Walters attitude and approach I sometimes felt the storyline hinged a little bit too much on Walter or the boy wonder generally freaking out taking a "civilians" approach to problems and thus creating the situations that they would later have to solve.
I hope the series now goes from him consistently cleaning up his own mess to becoming more of a personal ride for him to become the next Gus and boy wonder to become the next Mike.
Just my 2 cents.
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Last edited by Sandslinger; July 16 2012 at 04:22:58 PM. Reason: Grammar Bee
Fucking magnets mate
Your posting is medium, its not rare and its not well done
- Krans 26/7/12
Would a magnet like that be enough to really destroy the data like intended? I'm quiet sure the data would still be intact ... more complicated to get it though.
I think i also remember something like mythbusters, where they actually used a magnet of a scrapheap ... and it didn't work.
For the show it was cool ofcourse!
I also didn't remember Ted ... i literally had to google him.
Almost certainly not. To actually remove a magnetic field beyond any analysis, you need to expose it to extremely rapidly changing magnetic fields (such as those surrounding a conductor carrying AC, look up degaussing in the context of ships for a cool example), or you need to heat it up beyond its curie temperature. Just applying a single, strong DC electromagnet won't do the job. You'll probably physically destroy the drive, and disrupt the disk's data, but you'll do so in a uniform way. Everything will just be offset according to the strength of the magnetic field, making reading the platters (assuming you have the right equipment) easy. There's probably some jiggery pokery with induced fields with all the debris flying around, but this is the first time the show's fallen down on the science front.
Someone as competent as Walt would know the drive would stand a very good chance of holding up under forensic analysis; anyone who's ever so much as flirted with information assurance knows you need to "bleach" files to securely delete them. That is, you need to overwrite them a number of times with random data, to make analysis (based on the principle of hysterisis) effectively impossible. A crane's electromagnet is just like very crudely overwriting everything on the drive with straight 1s or straight 0s, which would stop the feds for as long as it took them to dig the platters out of the enclosure and stick them in a reader.
That said, still an excellent episode. Walt with hair. Whoah. etc.
Last edited by elmicker; July 17 2012 at 04:46:32 PM.
Your posting is medium, its not rare and its not well done
- Krans 26/7/12
I'm sure the cops will just get distracted by what they found in the picture frame.
The laptop was heavily damaged in the bag, it's likely the physical force that fucked the drive more than anything.
P sure that samsung model comes standard with an SSD.
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