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On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 22:38 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<BR>
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Heat any magnet above the curie temp and it's no longer a magnet. This also works perfectly well for all hard drives. No three letter org can bypass the laws of physics.<BR>
The shredding routine come from rule for paper docs as the rule writers don't understand computers.<BR>
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You mean they are bound by laws of nature?:) <BR>
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On Aug 26, 2011 10:29 PM, "Ron Frazier" <<A HREF="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
> Technically, based on my reading, A) not all platters are made of glass, <BR>
> although some are; and B) to keep it away from people like the NSA, <BR>
> you'd have to shred to particles smaller than a grain of sand because of <BR>
> the insane areal density of modern drives. If you've got a 1/4" square <BR>
> piece of platter, that could still have many KB or MB (maybe) of data on it.<BR>
> <BR>
> Sincerely,<BR>
> <BR>
> Ron<BR>
> <BR>
> On 8/26/2011 2:05 PM, David Hillman wrote:<BR>
>> Why don't you just take them apart and shatter the platters with a <BR>
>> hammer? You can make art out of the pieces. I crushed a bunch of <BR>
>> drives that I had and put the chips in between two panes of glass in a <BR>
>> wooden stand. It serves as a conversation piece. If that doesn't <BR>
>> work, how about taking a blow torch to them? How much heat would it <BR>
>> take to melt those drives down? I am sure there is a video on Youtube <BR>
>> of someone melting hard drives. Good luck.<BR>
>><BR>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey Myers <BR>
>> <<A HREF="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</A> <mailto:<A HREF="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</A>>> wrote:<BR>
>><BR>
>> I've drawn a blank. What is the name of that free software that I can<BR>
>> use to erase a hard drive? It will run multiple overwrites?<BR>
>><BR>
>> I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't<BR>
>> want to<BR>
>> bother trying to figure out what's on them.<BR>
>><BR>
>> --<BR>
>> Until later, Geoffrey<BR>
>><BR>
>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent<BR>
>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under<BR>
>> the pretense of taking care of them."<BR>
>> - Thomas Jefferson<BR>
>><BR>
> <BR>
> -- <BR>
> <BR>
> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to<BR>
> call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy<BR>
> mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very quickly.)<BR>
> <BR>
> Ron Frazier<BR>
> <BR>
> 770-205-9422 (O) Leave a message.<BR>
> linuxdude AT <A HREF="http://c3energy.com">c3energy.com</A><BR>
> <BR>
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