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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-Paul Iadonisi
Senior System Administrator
Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist
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