Matthew Seaman writes: MS> If your drive contains or once contained military secrets, then in the MS> USA and probably anywhere in the West, standard disposal procedure is MS> that the drive be completely overwritten with specific patterns of MS> random data several times, and then taken to a secure facility where MS> the whole thing is literally stamped flat and chewed into small lumps MS> of scrap.
Assuming one doesn't have the resources to do this, what might one do to secure disk drives before disposal. I've thought of opening them up and scratching the platters or chopping them into pieces (not sure how hard this might be to do), or something. Home incineration isn't very practical, nor are machines that can chop metallic platters into confetti. Also, is there anything like a bulk degausser for disk platters (after removal from the drives)? Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time I saw a tape degausser, and I still am not quite sure what to do with old backup tapes that are unreadable but still filled with backup data. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
