[ale] destroy old drives

[David Ritchie]

https://cmrr.ucsd.edu/resources/secure-erase.html is useful.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:19 PM Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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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