<div dir="ltr">try a belt sander on the platters. By the time that data stream is reassembled, our sun will be a red giant.<br><br>Realistically, a 1T+ alternating magnetic field (60Hz) for 5 seconds with the drive not stationary in the field will render it useless to even the most sophisticated STM/AFM methods. This will also render the heads useless as well.<br>
<br>A hand-held bulk tape erasure moving across the top cover of a drive for about 30 seconds will render the contents unrecoverable to "normal" people. Most 3-letter named organizations can pull data off from this. This will not destroy the drives ability to be used again like the above method.<br>
<br>Log splitter method just looks fun: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZJOFEepjXw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZJOFEepjXw</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Greg Freemyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2008/7/30 Forsaken <<a href="mailto:forsaken@targaryen.us">forsaken@targaryen.us</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:19:04 -0400<br>
> "Michael B. Trausch" <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Most people just do the reinstallation and think<br>
>> that the data is gone... but it's not; usually it's only (poorly)<br>
>> written over.<br>
><br>
> Yeah, I used to have to DoD wipes at my former job. And for another<br>
> employer, the solution to getting rid of hard drives that were no<br>
> longer needed involved a drill press. Effective to prevent run of the<br>
> mill data recovery, but still not impossible. It was fun though!<br>
><br>
> The only real way to ensure data is gone off a drive is to drop it into<br>
> a crucible and turn it into molten slag.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>NIST officially says that a single pass wipe does the job on a 20GB or<br>
larger drive.<br>
<br>
Only trouble is they have not shared the testing to backup their<br>
statement. I think the NSA did the tests.<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
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