From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 17:32:01 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C90CE427 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lb1-smtp-cloud3.xs4all.net (lb1-smtp-cloud3.xs4all.net [194.109.24.22]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D4F2AB6 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:32:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.home ([83.162.243.5]) by smtp-cloud3.xs4all.net with ESMTP id ttWn1p00D07iGuj01tWoRV; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:30:48 +0100 Received: by slackbox.erewhon.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 82B0412429; Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:30:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:30:47 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Michael Powell Subject: Re: What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it? Message-ID: <20150218173047.GA53030@slackbox.erewhon.home> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Powell , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <54E39F83.70002@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:32:01 -0000 --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 04:04:36PM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: > jd1008 wrote: >=20 > [snip]=20 >=20 > Remove the cover. Remove the platters. Smash all platters with large sled= ge=20 > hammer until all pieces are fairly small. Melt material with oxyacetylene= =20 > welders torch. Repeat smashing with hammer. Soak for few hours in=20 > hydrofluoric acid. Probably a case of the cure being worse than the disease! OTOH, HF can definitely free you of all worries about harddrives. Of course if you *really* want to dial it up to 11 you go directly for ClF3. Pouring that in the enclosure would probably make further steps unneccesary. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAABAgAGBQJU5MxHAAoJEED21dyjijPgPf4P/07rRIqRq0PCJsmDyKpRiTYN a6faVNAz48JbF9lkq9iZdwjUeDQjLG9iP4aod8FsuKacWDpyYmrsPX9QzB0w9AxA 4UlfpLSxo4sDGZVsIZR87csiQFcoc3no7oy1uioHp4N1KE79XEQcicA8OFZWwgU7 jzAatzn3clMrqSPwNX0rXzUL9j/51JUE2T+8NAvpkW3MhFBmI5ODL6xmoI9Yp9HX 3UH/mAaJ4986PbgrU2rJl6bMm8mIxQW0FZamSwgg1gTsay9qhkk3x3ORcedel7Io kE0vkCmjVsmZP0TDalLDqebFEdwA8Wow3PwXtapjX66j//BSDEkAZmRPpK6P47R7 cSiUYUcmPPcZ9657C9//pPH6uD/FNJGA1koen7NYIeOJ6ZQcxsi7Hc72aLKW89cG ZfOUbIwnYzVJtJy3zkGAzZ7RSAMTB4xOvaKnbPptFY17bSIqlDj2Rtk1ySwyjANJ 1V7bYjWrs9XlMUSFqzCEIZUWJlbpy2xjDYLdqRY2rvbmRYMZp1eqJbTFduCg4u0D PSQAclOisA3bLRcdx3THr2esLjwsci/TwE/7zo9/2uPLCv3qA2yg0E5Nvm77qgGj VqwMqixrImaK2OmnPmXhn/J4zpGtFwj58vQKAt+IGskxxp8kQzHUL0AqwpxnArVL FNn6vy96UQLSSrjPYYIw =LEk5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--