"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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>> On Sunday, October 26, 2014 1:12:53 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
>>> On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 20:41:09 -1000, dsi1
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>>> > 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. :-)
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> dh puts a hammer through any he has finished with.

I did that too but my bro said there was still a way to get data.