<html dir="ltr"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto" style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Which is why my preferred method of absolutely destroying spinning rust media is with heat. Get past the curie point and there are no magnetic domains left - thus no data to be slurped/snooped by any 3-letter group with knowledge of physics.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/tempering-colors-steel-d_1530.html">https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/tempering-colors-steel-d_1530.html</a></div><div>The above link only has steel temp colors. Big thing is that all curie temps are below 1450F and all steel temps above 1400F are glowing red. This can be done with a propane torch. If that platter's glowing, that data is going (away).</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2019-04-03 at 10:55 -0400, Lists via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">But would leave quite a mess to clean up I suspect. <div><br></div><div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1;"><span style="font-size: 28px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5.56??</span></h1><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Geoffrey Myers</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 31, 2019, at 7:14 PM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span>Shoot them! I do that frequently. Put them on a clay bank, where you are firing into a cutaway hillside, and have fun. It is interesting to see the different types and levels of destruction with different calibers and types of ammo. One would have a difficult time putting together all the various bits of platters mixed together with all the other resulting debris and dirt. Smaller calibers like a 22lr aren't that effective, but high powered rifles and big bore handguns are quite effecting at destroying drives.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Allen B.</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 3/31/19 1:48 PM, Geoffrey Myers via Ale wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>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.</span><br><span>Thoughts?</span><br><span>--</span><br><span>Until later, Geof</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Ale mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></span><br><span>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</span><br><span><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Allen Beddingfield</span><br><span>Systems Engineer</span><br><span>Office of Information Technology</span><br><span>The University of Alabama</span><br><span>Office 205-348-2251</span><br><span><a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Ale mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></span><br><span><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></span><br><span>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</span><br><span><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org"><pre>Ale@ale.org</pre></a><pre><br></pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale"><pre>https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</pre></a><pre><br></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo"><pre>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</pre></a><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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