Re: Hard Drive Destruct System?

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Date: 11/27/04

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    Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:39:59 +0000 (UTC)

    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?

    The simplest low-tech method is to take the platters out and apply
    $2 disk sander with coarse paper in an electric drill to them, then
    bend them in half. 

    -- 
Jim Pennino
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