Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:30:56 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it? Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.11.1502171829280.7759@sas1.nber.org> In-Reply-To: <mc0ad5$qu2$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <54E39F83.70002@gmail.com> <mc0ad5$qu2$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Michael Powell wrote: > jd1008 wrote: > > [snip] > > Remove the cover. Remove the platters. Smash all platters with large sledge > hammer until all pieces are fairly small. Melt material with oxyacetylene > welders torch. Repeat smashing with hammer. Soak for few hours in > hydrofluoric acid. Rinse and allow to dry. Grind material into a fine > particulate dust. Dispose of out the back of airplane while flying or drop > into convenient nearby volcano. That might be good enough. > > Send the electronic components to Kaspersky for analysis. I did once investigate claims that overwritten sectors could be read by sophisticated instruments and posted my results at: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-gutmann.html In short - that is pure science fiction. daniel feenberg > > :-) > > -Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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