On Sunday, October 26, 2014 9:59:04 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" wrote in message
> ...
> > On Sunday, October 26, 2014 1:12:53 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> >> On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 20:41:09 -1000, dsi1
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have a crosscut shredder but is that good enough? Maybe not. I don't
> >> > throw away hard drives and there's a drawerful of them in the office
> >> > even though I've taken quite a few apart. Beats the hell out of me
> >> > where
> >> > they're coming from. They multiply like rabbits. :-)
> >>
> >> Maybe I didn't hear it here... but I heard somewhere that you can
> >> erase hard drives very effectively by passing a big enough magnet over
> >> them. At the moment, I'm thinking the person was talking about using
> >> a magnet from an old stereo speaker.
> >>
> >
> > You might be able to wipe out most of the data from a drive that way but
> > you can't be sure that it's 100%. That's pretty much why I disassemble the
> > drives. As an added bonus, you can harvest some nice rare earth magnets..
>
> dh puts a hammer through any he has finished with.
>

That's a good start. Then I'd drive up to the highlands in a Montero and bury it like the Romans buried their money before a battle. When it's discovered 2000 years later you can be sure that the data contained within won't amount to a hill of haggis. 😜💀😇
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