[ale] destroy old drives

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 15:18:55 EDT 2019


But for working drives, does that substantially differ from running DBAN?

Non-working drives do require a hammer

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 15:05 Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> As a corollary, how much would it damage your life if somebody
> recovered your username, password, and positions for your investment
> firm?
>
> Fifteen minutes of hammering and you haven't a care in the world.
>
> SteveT
>
>
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:27:35 -0400
> Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> > How much effort do you expect the men in black to expend to recover
> > the data on them?
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 14:48 Geoffrey Myers via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > So, I’m cleaning up the basement.  Got a stack of old drivers I’m
> > > working to erase.  Many of which are, not surprisingly
> > > inaccessible.  Google says simply remove the platters and hammer
> > > them into shards.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Until later, Geof
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