[ale] [OT] Mojave Experiment

[Jim Kinney]

try a belt sander on the platters. By the time that data stream is
reassembled, our sun will be a red giant.

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.

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.

Log splitter method just looks fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZJOFEepjXw

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/7/30 Forsaken <forsaken at targaryen.us>:
> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:19:04 -0400
> > "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> >> Most people just do the reinstallation and think
> >> that the data is gone... but it's not; usually it's only (poorly)
> >> written over.
> >
> > Yeah, I used to have to DoD wipes at my former job. And for another
> > employer, the solution to getting rid of hard drives that were no
> > longer needed involved a drill press. Effective to prevent run of the
> > mill data recovery, but still not impossible. It was fun though!
> >
> > The only real way to ensure data is gone off a drive is to drop it into
> > a crucible and turn it into molten slag.
> >
>
> NIST officially says that a single pass wipe does the job on a 20GB or
> larger drive.
>
> Only trouble is they have not shared the testing to backup their
> statement.  I think the NSA did the tests.
>
> Greg
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