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"Julie Bove" > wrote:

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

and your brother does what for a living?