Re: Hard Drive Destruct System?

From: Lassi Hippeläinen (lahippel_at_IEEE.ORGasm-research.invalid)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:20:36 +0200

jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com wrote:
> mike3 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi.
>
>
>>Would this make a good mechanism to securely destroy a hard drive?
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>
>>1. Crash the heads into the platters with the drive at top speed
>
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>>2. Seek them from one edge of the platters to the other back and forth
>>to \
>> ensure good grinding
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>>3. Pump a concentrated hydrogen/oxygen mix into the hard drive platter
>>chamber
>> while the heads are grinding away.
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>>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.

Next time you could use the $0 method: store sensitive data in encrypted
files or partitions. Physical destruction won't be necessary.

-- Lassi

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