December 15, 2004 10:31 PM GMT
There's many urban myths about data destruction, but only one truth...
If someone wants to take your hard disk, however well you think you've destroyed it, and us enough manpower for enough hours and spend enough money on it, they WILL recover data from it!
The only way to completely destroy the data is to completely destroy the hard-disk platters. This can't even be done safely at the bottom of a bonfire.
The most effective and quickest method of doing this that I've seen was a laptop filled full of Thermite after having the drives removed, and then ignited, causing the laptop to reach temperatures upwards of 3000 degrees celcius in a short space of time.
I don't think I'd make that much effort though. Personally I'd just use a sanitizer a few times. With the right algorythm, it's as good as it's likely to reasonably get, and even then it takes an awfully long time.
December 15, 2004 1:25 PM GMT
Mandibles
.. And every word you ever uttered has been recorded by the walls and is stored in the tiny vibrations of atomic particles and one day will be played back by archeologists...!
paranoid .. me?
It's very hard to smash a hard disc, I've tried
Cerys xx
(All my friends watch me when I'm in the bath
through tiny cameras hidden in the taps)
December 15, 2004 4:35 PM GMT
Shan
Dropped into the boiling pot whilst still alive, wriggling screaming, hands tied together .. bubble bubble .. no escape.
.. but you've been to "Napoleons" so you'll know all about that.
Cerys xx
(on seratonin high after eating million squids
worth of chocolate coins)