destroying data

Paul Iadonisi pri.nhlug at iadonisi.to
Sun Jul 6 03:38:42 EDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 08:40, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> A friend of mine who used to work for one of our government agencies told me
> how they got rid of old disks.  They took the disks apart, ground the platters
> down to dust....then burned the dust.

  Iron filings make really cool sparks, too.  It's definitely the right
thing to do from the pure geek value perspective. ;-)
  Of course, that won't help Derek get warranty coverage on his disk,
but might make the kids go 'ooh, aaahh'.


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