[ale] destroy old drives

[Jim Kinney]

Dban advantage: it can be done across hundreds or thousands of drives before larcenous third party "shredders" physically touch the drives.

Hydraulic log splitter with a custom knife and a box to support drives until punched was an idea floated around google for a while.

Blacksmith trip hammer would also be effective.

On April 10, 2019 8:30:32 PM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>I think opinions vary on the effectiveness of DBAN, but nobody I've
>ever met disputed that once all platters are reduced to pieces no more
>than 1 inch square, the cost of recovery precludes anyone but a state
>actor who has prioritized the daylights out of your data. To easily
>be even more cautious, you could easily dispose of platter shards in
>different places and different time periods.
>
>DBAN and its category brethren strike me as things that work
>wonderfully if used correctly, but I make mistakes. And what if the
>drive was intermittent when DBANized?
>
>And what if you accidentally DBANize the wrong drive?
>
>And then there's this: What's the advantage of DBAN over a hammer?
>
>SteveT
>
>
>
>On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:18:55 -0400
>Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> But for working drives, does that substantially differ from running
>> DBAN?
>> 
>> Non-working drives do require a hammer
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 15:05 Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > As a corollary, how much would it damage your life if somebody
>> > recovered your username, password, and positions for your
>investment
>> > firm?
>> >
>> > Fifteen minutes of hammering and you haven't a care in the world.
>> >
>> > SteveT
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 15:27:35 -0400
>> > Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> >  
>> > > How much effort do you expect the men in black to expend to
>> > > recover the data on them?
>> > >
>> > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 14:48 Geoffrey Myers via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >  
>> > > > So, I’m cleaning up the basement.  Got a stack of old drivers
>> > > > I’m working to erase.  Many of which are, not surprisingly
>> > > > inaccessible.  Google says simply remove the platters and
>hammer
>> > > > them into shards.
>> > > >
>> > > > Thoughts?
>> > > >
>> > > > --
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