Destroying a hard drive

[Jerry Feldman]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:46:39 -0400
"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>  FWIW, that is not considered sufficient for media containing
> classified information.  The NSA doesn't tell us why, but presumably
> they have their reasons.  Of course, your enemies are likely less
> motivated.  If it was my own personal data, I'd be quite happy with
> that.

The key is the information on the drive. If you have personal data on
the drive, simply degaussing, or possibly just shearing the platters
would make the data recovery expensive enough not to be worth trying to
recover, but if the information was very valuable, such as account
numbers/passwords for high value accounts, or national security, it
would be very important to do some very complete erasure and
destruction. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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