[ale] destroy old drives

[Steve Litt]

I think opinions vary on the effectiveness of DBAN, but nobody I've
ever met disputed that once all platters are reduced to pieces no more
than 1 inch square, the cost of recovery precludes anyone but a state
actor who has prioritized the daylights out of your data. To easily
be even more cautious, you could easily dispose of platter shards in
different places and different time periods.

DBAN and its category brethren strike me as things that work
wonderfully if used correctly, but I make mistakes. And what if the
drive was intermittent when DBANized?

And what if you accidentally DBANize the wrong drive?

And then there's this: What's the advantage of DBAN over a hammer?

SteveT



On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:18:55 -0400
Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> 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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