<html><head></head><body>Dban advantage: it can be done across hundreds or thousands of drives before larcenous third party "shredders" physically touch the drives.<br><br>Hydraulic log splitter with a custom knife and a box to support drives until punched was an idea floated around google for a while.<br><br>Blacksmith trip hammer would also be effective.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 10, 2019 8:30:32 PM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I think opinions vary on the effectiveness of DBAN, but nobody I've<br>ever met disputed that once all platters are reduced to pieces no more<br>than 1 inch square, the cost of recovery precludes anyone but a state<br>actor who has prioritized the daylights out of your data. To easily<br>be even more cautious, you could easily dispose of platter shards in<br>different places and different time periods.<br><br>DBAN and its category brethren strike me as things that work<br>wonderfully if used correctly, but I make mistakes. And what if the<br>drive was intermittent when DBANized?<br><br>And what if you accidentally DBANize the wrong drive?<br><br>And then there's this: What's the advantage of DBAN over a hammer?<br><br>SteveT<br><br><br><br>On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:18:55 -0400<br>Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">But for working drives, does that substantially differ from running<br>DBAN?<br><br>Non-working drives do require a hammer<br><br>On Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 15:05 Steve Litt via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> As a corollary, how much would it damage your life if somebody<br> recovered your username, password, and positions for your investment<br> firm?<br><br> Fifteen minutes of hammering and you haven't a care in the world.<br><br> SteveT<br><br><br> On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:27:35 -0400<br> Pete Hardie via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br> <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> How much effort do you expect the men in black to expend to<br> recover the data on them?<br><br> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 14:48 Geoffrey Myers via Ale <ale@ale.org><br> wrote:<br> <br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"> So, I’m cleaning up the basement. Got a stack of old drivers<br> I’m working to erase. Many of which are, not surprisingly<br> inaccessible. Google says simply remove the platters and hammer<br> them into shards.<br><br> Thoughts?<br><br> --<br> Until later, Geof <br></blockquote></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br> <br></blockquote></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. All tyopes are thumb related and reflect authenticity.</body></html>