<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Might as well use a pound of thermite. Difficult to recover data off a lump of slag.<br></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:courier;">--- </span><br style="font-family:courier;"><span style="font-family:courier;">Wayne Johnson, | <span style="color:rgb(191, 95, 0);">There are two kinds of people: Those</span> </span><br style="font-family:courier;"><span style="font-family:courier;">3943 Penn Ave. N. | <span style="color:rgb(191, 95, 0);">who say to God, "Thy will be done," </span></span><br style="font-family:courier;"><span style="font-family:courier;">Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | <span style="color:rgb(191, 95, 0);">and those to whom God says, "All right,
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<div id="yiv603064972">Actually, if you do the 1/4 hole idea, it *really* helps to then turn the drive on. The drives will often shred themselves.<br><br>If you're in the Navy, of course, you just toss the platters overboard and let the salt water do it's thing.<br>
<br>-Josh<br><br><div class="yiv603064972gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Ryan Coleman <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ryanjcole@me.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ryanjcole@me.com">ryanjcole@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv603064972gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Jan 19, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Yaron wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Adam Nave wrote:<br>
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>> I gotta say, physically destroying drives is serious overkill for the home<br>
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> I believe you misspelled "serious fun".<br>
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As a former DoD family member one said: The only way to make sure there's nothing recoverable on the drive (meaning not making it financially worth it to recover) is to drill a few holes randomly spaced from the center of the drive with a 1/4" bit.<br>
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Apparently that's the "DoD-proof" level of data destruction.<br>
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