yes - dd + hammer. true story - we did a security audit for a h-tech client who conveniently put all their decommissioned disks in a barrel in the yard of the factory.
:-) On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz>wrote: > Danny Lieberman wrote: > > > 3. Use a 10kg hammer. > We have clients that insist on physical destruction of the data disk after > a network surveillance. > > Do you, at least, FIRST run the dd? I'm sure you realize that recovering > data from a disk that got only the 10KG hammer is much easier (and cheaper) > than recovering data from one that got only the dd treatment. As an added > bonus, you just marked that disk as interesting by physically destroying it > :-) > > Personally, I think the best solution for anyone who cannot afford to > physically melt the disk platters is to dd the entire disk, and THEN GO ON > USING IT for another project. > > Shachar > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.http://www.lingnu.com > > -- Danny Lieberman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your data: http://www.software.co.il Twitter: http://twitter.com/onlyjazz Skype: dannyl50 Warsaw:+48-79-609-5964 Israel: +972 8 9701485 Mobile: +972 - 54 447 1114
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