Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:00:19PM -0400, Chris Walters wrote: >> I hate to tell you this, but the F.B.I. Computer Forensics Laboratory has >> successfully recovered data from a drive, where the platters were shot >> multiple >> times with a shotgun. >> >> The only sure way to make sure no one can recover your data is to put it >> into a >> blast furnace (this would be hot enough to melt the whole thing into a >> puddle, >> and would cause substantial mixing between the ferro-magnetic alloy and the >> titanium internal structure. > > Have they ever tried a disk that's had the coating polished off with a > wire-wheel chucked into a portable drill? Dust is usually fairly > random. > > Or how about supposedly happened to the Purple cipher machine just > before Pearl was hit: hammered to bits, dissolved in acid, poured in the > flower beds.
Don't really know. You'd have to ask the F.B.I. Reducing the entire drive (including the chips) to dust would probably do about what I suggested would. That is, it would likely make it impossible for anyone to recover data from the drive. As would placing it in a nuclear reactor, and probably doing a thousand other things. I just like my method, because once it congealed, you'd have modern art. LOL. Regards, Chris
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