Re: Hard Drive Destruct System?

From: Al Dykes (adykes_at_panix.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: 26 Nov 2004 12:37:01 -0500

In article <1d54b7e4.0411251822.729ae8cc@posting.google.com>,
mike3 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Would this make a good mechanism to securely destroy a hard drive?
>
>1. Crash the heads into the platters with the drive at top speed
>
>2. Seek them from one edge of the platters to the other back and forth
>to \
> ensure good grinding
>
>3. Pump a concentrated hydrogen/oxygen mix into the hard drive platter
>chamber
> while the heads are grinding away.
>
>Would the heat from the grinding be enough to ignite the H2/O2 mix and
>ensure that data can't be recovered? Would this mechanism be good
>enough to keep copies of a large company's trade secrets from a
>competing large company?

A concrete floor and a 5 pound sledge hammer.

Anyone that claims to be able to read data from a disk platter
that isn't flat and balanced needs to give me something
to back up that claim. 

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