[12amps]

sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, (please direct me to a GOOD forum for this type of question if you know of one)

I'd like to BURN a few jpeg images PERMENTANTLY on a camera chip
(those thin rectangular ones about the size of a quarter)
I'd like to do it so that it is not able to be erased, deleted, altered, ediitted, and/or remove/formatted.

how can I have a program to acccomplish something like this??


any ideas?

PS I have heard somewhere that there are programs that can write a image to a disk over and over again until it is 'burned' onto it, is this possible? Or can I somehow make the file attribute to locked so that it is physically impossible for anyone to then erase the file?

[Specop_007]

Anandtech forums

Best tech forums I've ever found. Also has a good OT section thats good for wasting away the hours.

[12amps]

to clarify, I have a 1GB SD card (Apacer Hi-Speed) and there are about 8 pictures (each JPEG 1024X768 1.4mb) and I want to etch/burn/save them PERMANENTLY on the SD with no chance of every erasing/deleting/reformating these pics. Is this somehow possible?

Can it be done that a program can aggressively write to the same location on the disk many many times that it makes it permanent or is there any other way?

[12amps]

thanks specoops

[rushdy]

You should be aware 12amps if you do manage to write the data to the card permanently that it won't remain readable permanently. Modern memory (and to a certain extend the systems themselves) are to small and fiddly (technical description) to trust reliably over a long period of time. If its longevity your after, keep copies all over the place on loads of different media - even paper!

A recent example would be how 6 high quality dvdrs burned slowly with a good drive managed to go from verified written to corrupt and unreadable in under 3 months, even though I kept them well. There went my backups

[12amps]

Yes, after researching it some more I come to realization that what I want to do cannot be done. (maybe if the NSA is reading this they might help out a little??)

What I really want is the OPPOSITE of a digital file shredder program.
(not what you might think at first)

My goal was to 'etch' some pictures onto a flash SD card/chip permanently so that it will survive reformatting, purposeful deleting, changing, etc...

While shredders write data over and over again to erase it permenetalty with no hope of recover I thought there was a program that could write information (usable data) over and over so that it etches (like the ghost image of an old overused monitor without screensavers) so that the data is always there and can be retraced even after a bit-by-bit reformat etc.

Looks like that is beyond my current capabilities.

[12amps]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rushdy', 'Y')ou should be aware 12amps if you do manage to write the data to the card permanently that it won't remain readable permanently. Modern memory (and to a certain extend the systems themselves) are to small and fiddly (technical description) to trust reliably over a long period of time. If its longevity your after, keep copies all over the place on loads of different media - even paper!

A recent example would be how 6 high quality dvdrs burned slowly with a good drive managed to go from verified written to corrupt and unreadable in under 3 months, even though I kept them well. There went my backups

[rushdy]

Hahaha allrighty