Might as well use a pound of thermite. Difficult to recover data off a lump of slag. --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis >________________________________ > From: Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> >To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:11 PM >Subject: Re: [tclug-list] hard disk wiper? > > >Actually, if you do the 1/4 hole idea, it *really* helps to then turn the drive on. The drives will often shred themselves. > >If you're in the Navy, of course, you just toss the platters overboard and let the salt water do it's thing. > >-Josh > > >On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > > >>On Jan 19, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Yaron wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Adam Nave wrote: >>> >>>> I gotta say, physically destroying drives is serious overkill for the home >>>> user. >>> >>> >>> I believe you misspelled "serious fun". >> >>As a former DoD family member one said: The only way to make sure there's nothing recoverable on the drive (meaning not making it financially worth it to recover) is to drill a few holes randomly spaced from the center of the drive with a 1/4" bit. >> >>Apparently that's the "DoD-proof" level of data destruction. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120119/03c9deac/attachment.html>