On 10/26/2014 3:14 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, October 26, 2014 4:19:57 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/26/2014 2:41 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>
>>>>> OK, you're paranoid. If you have a good crosscut shredder, you can
>>>>> dispose of it confidently. Only on detective shows on TV is it put
>>>>> together again.
>>>>
>>>> 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. :-)
>>>
>>> Clean the shredder hopper. Run a page through with something you've
>>> printed so you know what is on it. Now try to assemble it to be
>>> readable. Then mix it in with another 100 sheets. Rest easy.
>>
>> And if you're still not easy, mix up all the shedded pieces and put
>> them into 3 bags and throw them out in different places or times.
>> G.
>
> I'm fairly certain that there's bad people out there that would gladly accept shredded paper or erased drives if there was a chance of mining data out of it.
>
I keep all of the old hard drives that I remove from machines that need
to be disposed of. I don't have so many that I am concerned about what
to do with them yet.

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