2009/1/8 Chris Dennis <cgdennis@???>
> Tony Whitmore wrote:
> > We've talked in the past about secure data erasure, using things like
> DBAN
> > which use wiping algorithms approved by the US DoD. The BBC news website
> is
> > carrying a story today encouraging people to get physical and smash their
> > drives. Now, whilst I can see that putting a hard disk that has come
> > straight from a computer on ebay, or one that has been trivially
> formatted
> > or had files "erased" is probably a risk, is it really worth getting
> people
> > to attack their hard drives with hammers? (Never mind the Health & Safety
> > implications!)
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7816446.stm
> >
> > Tony
>
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My practice has been to put the drive in a strong bag and hit it repeatedly
with a sledgehammer. Health and Safety? Hardly an issue, I'd have thought.
It beats me why anyone would want to try and retrieve data from the disc
fragments, but I wish them luck in their endeavours.
Chris.
