[ale] erasing a hard drive

[planas]

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 22:38 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:

> 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.
> The shredding routine come from rule for paper docs as the rule
> writers don't understand computers.

You mean  they are bound by laws of nature?:) 


> On Aug 26, 2011 10:29 PM, "Ron Frazier"
> <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> > Technically, based on my reading, A) not all platters are made of
> glass, 
> > although some are; and B) to keep it away from people like the NSA, 
> > you'd have to shred to particles smaller than a grain of sand
> because of 
> > the insane areal density of modern drives. If you've got a 1/4"
> square 
> > piece of platter, that could still have many KB or MB (maybe) of
> data on it.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > 
> > Ron
> > 
> > On 8/26/2011 2:05 PM, David Hillman wrote:
> >> Why don't you just take them apart and shatter the platters with a 
> >> hammer? You can make art out of the pieces. I crushed a bunch of 
> >> drives that I had and put the chips in between two panes of glass
> in a 
> >> wooden stand. It serves as a conversation piece. If that doesn't 
> >> work, how about taking a blow torch to them? How much heat would
> it 
> >> take to melt those drives down? I am sure there is a video on
> Youtube 
> >> of someone melting hard drives. Good luck.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey Myers 
> >> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've drawn a blank. What is the name of that free software that I
> can
> >> use to erase a hard drive? It will run multiple overwrites?
> >>
> >> I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't
> >> want to
> >> bother trying to figure out what's on them.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Until later, Geoffrey
> >>
> >> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
> >> the government from wasting the labors of the people under
> >> the pretense of taking care of them."
> >> - Thomas Jefferson
> >>
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want
> to
> > call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate
> energy
> > mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very
> quickly.)
> > 
> > Ron Frazier
> > 
> > 770-205-9422 (O) Leave a message.
> > linuxdude AT c3energy.com
> > 
> 
> 
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