Re: Re: Disk Wiping Utilities

From: Allen Chang (allen@rescomp.berkeley.edu)
Date: 03/29/02 

Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:18:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Chang <allen@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
To: Mark Medici <mark@dbma.com>

There's a problem with that too. Advanced recovery services probably can
still retrieve some data from a HDD with 2 holes in it. What's probably
desired for total data wiping is a combination of overwriting, magnetic
erasure(degausser) and then physical destruction (incinerator sounds
like the best one so far).

But that's probably going overboard for 98% of the world.

@llen

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Mark Medici wrote:

> I don't know how many disks Dan needs to erase. But a new 20GB hard
> disk costs less than $100. Two 198g 30-06 rifle cartridges cost about
> $2.00. Take the old disk out to the rifle range and punch two holes
> through it. Install the new disk and be done. Heck, you could probably
> charge office staff for the opportunity shoot-up the disks, and recover
> $10 to $25 bucks per disk!

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