Re: [Full-Disclosure] Erasing a hard disk easily

From: Adam (adam_at_huntrecruiting.com)
Date: 07/13/04

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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:18:55 -0400

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    Would you concider donating them to http://www.freetradecampus.com where we
    would format and load linux on them to give away to needy students?

    On Monday 12 July 2004 02:49 pm, amilabs wrote:
    > I have a bunch of old computers I would like to donate. Old laptops with
    > win 95/98 on them and some old tower desktops all circa 1995-2k.
    > I would like to know if I can just use a magnet to completely wipe out the
    > data for obvious security reasons. I have heard about the disk erasers like
    > active kill and Perl utilities for this but with the ability of data
    > ghosting etc. is this enough? Can I use a big magnet like a speaker magnet
    > or something like a degasser to just wipe out the data without having to
    > boot these old boxes and go through all the extra work.
    >
    > Thanks
    >
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