[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[David Tomaschik]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 14:22 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:
>> The simplest and quickest method that works against all but the most
>> persistent hackers (such as NSA and friends) is the following.
>>
>> Drill one or more holes the drive and case from top to bottom.  Be sure
>> to drill through the circuit board too.  I don't know for sure but I'm
>> confident that that gives good protection easily.
>>
>> For 100% protection I suggest either sanding the platters (sanding by
>> hand is fine) or applying battery acid (if your are trained to handle
>> it).
>
> There seems to be some good advice in the manpage for wipe as well,
> along with some rather interesting discussion of the subject... from
> my Ubuntu system (retrieved with man -t wipe | ps2pdf14 - wipe.ps):
>
> http://www.trausch.us/files/wipe.pdf
>
>     ? Mike
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Sounds like something of a conspiracy theorist.  I'm not completely
convinced of much of it, but that's just me.  Of course, I don't have
anything to hide, so perhaps I'm less worried (though I know I should
still care).

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