[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[Dan Lambert]

John M. Browning designed something very similar back early in the last
century.

It was so brilliant, and so reliable that the U. S. government bought
into it.

They are generally referred to now by the model number M1911A1.

Most of us know them as the Colt .45 ACP.

Works like a charm.

Dan

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 19:12 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Add me to the list of ALE willing to part with cash on this.
> 
> Maybe a rail gun that shoots a slug to crush/penetrate/destroy a 3.5"
> drive.
> 
> Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! A multi-rail rail gun that shoots rapid fire small slugs.
> 
> Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Add an automatic loader and a rapid
> recharger and make it portable!
> 
> Now I'm just fantasizing. Sheesh.
> 
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:14 -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> > Not to drive a dead hard drive through the heart of an  
> > immortal thread - or nothing like that... 8-)
> > 
> > If you/somebody can figure out how and _where_ to build  
> > such a thing - I would _love_ to see such in operation! I  
> > might even be persuaded to part with some cash in such a  
> > case.
> > 
> > (I must be feeling destructively immature today)
> > 
> > On 08/21/2007 04:38:12 PM, Josh Freeman wrote:
> > > I think ALE needs to build a hard drive rail gun for just
> > > such an
> > > emergency. I'm sure that  the combination of magnetic
> > > field and
> > > extremely high-G impact would do it.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 8/20/07, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > David Tomaschik wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 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).
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > hmmm... people with nothing to hide make me suspicious.
> > > ;)
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