[ale] Hard Drive destruction/data distruction techniques revisited

[Thompson Freeman]

On 08/23/2007 05:57:07 AM, William Bagwell wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 August 2007, tom wrote:
> > Have I missed any ideas at all?
> 
> Old fashioned sledge hammer? Minor nit with # 4. Seems to
> me that every
> part of the drive, other than the platters of course,
> would be reusable.
> Board swapping seems to come up often enough we all should
> hang onto them
> to help each other.
> 
> > Somehow, I see the potiential for a technical paper -
> "Investigations
> > into the Secure Deletion of Hard Disk Based Data"
> 
> Bbbut... then it would be dry and *technical*! Format
> looks good to me as
> is.


I take it that you never saw the paper written by some DEC  
engineers regarding vegetable illumination, aka the  
electric pickle and relatives. Dry. Technical. And a  
complete howl. It could be done well, and I think we have  
the kind of people here who could do justice to the project.