[ale] erasing a hard drive

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 09:06:43 EDT 2011


As astounding as it may seem, yes, even policy writers are bound by natural
law.

Even the ones who try and legislate pi to be exactly 3.




ok. so those are are bound by the natural law of stupid and can serve as
another test of the corollary of Darwin's theory that stupid dies.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:56 PM, planas <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:

> **
> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 22:38 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> You mean  they are bound by laws of nature?:)
>
>  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
> >>
> >
> > --
> >
> > (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
> > call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
> > mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very quickly.)
> >
> > Ron Frazier
> >
> > 770-205-9422 (O) Leave a message.
> > linuxdude AT c3energy.com
> >
>
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As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
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