[ale] erasing a hard drive

[Jim Kinney]

Heat any magnet above the curie temp and it's no longer a magnet.  This also
works perfectly well for all hard drives. No three letter org can bypass the
laws of physics.
The shredding routine come from rule for paper docs as the rule writers
don't understand computers.
On Aug 26, 2011 10:29 PM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>
wrote:
> Technically, based on my reading, A) not all platters are made of glass,
> although some are; and B) to keep it away from people like the NSA,
> you'd have to shred to particles smaller than a grain of sand because of
> the insane areal density of modern drives. If you've got a 1/4" square
> piece of platter, that could still have many KB or MB (maybe) of data on
it.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
> On 8/26/2011 2:05 PM, David Hillman wrote:
>> Why don't you just take them apart and shatter the platters with a
>> hammer? You can make art out of the pieces. I crushed a bunch of
>> drives that I had and put the chips in between two panes of glass in a
>> wooden stand. It serves as a conversation piece. If that doesn't
>> work, how about taking a blow torch to them? How much heat would it
>> take to melt those drives down? I am sure there is a video on Youtube
>> of someone melting hard drives. Good luck.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey Myers
>> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I've drawn a blank. What is the name of that free software that I can
>> use to erase a hard drive? It will run multiple overwrites?
>>
>> I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't
>> want to
>> bother trying to figure out what's on them.
>>
>> --
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under
>> the pretense of taking care of them."
>> - Thomas Jefferson
>>
>
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