On the old TechTV (then known as Screen Savers, hosted by Leo Laporte)
cohost Kevin Rose demonstrated how to eliminate date on an old hard
drive using 4 oz. of thermite powder. Demo included video of the
ensuing inferno in his backyard, you could actually hear fire truck
sirens in the background. Another "dark tip" was to microwave unwanted
data cd's or dvd's for 5-10 seconds.
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Doug wrote:
> On Thursday, May 22, 2008 08:46, Sandy Harris wrote:
>> John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Can anyone recommend a good (free) driver scrubber utility? One that
>>> scrubs free space as well as complete drives? ...
>> This is actually a surprisingly difficult problem, provided you need to
>> consider enemies with serious budgets and equipment. The classic
>> paper is:
>> http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gu
>> tmann/
>>
>> Here's one file erase utility that is free and appears to be doing it
>> right: http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/
>
> I bought a used hard dry and even after multiple repartitions, formatings
> with
> different file systems and OS installs, when I accidently delete a large
> directory that I needed and run a recovery program that attempted to put
> recover as much as possible there was still date from the original owner. She
> or they had obviously been getting ready for a wedding.
>
> If I had sensitive data on a drive that I needed to dispose I'd stuff it into
> the wood furnace on a cold winter day down by the air intake after an hour
> the only thing that would be left would be a glob of aluminum and whatevery
> steel that was in the unit.
>
> Short of absolute and total destruction of of the platters in the drive there
> is chance that data can be recovered. I read recently that they were able to
> recover the data of of 1 out of 3 drives on the space shuttle challenger
> after it crashed and they found the drive a long time after.
> -Doug
>
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