Marco Peereboom wrote: > > Grind them up. There is nothing else you can do to "permanently" wipe > disks. Residual magnetism is always there provided good enough > equipment. If your data is that sensitive there is nothing else but the > grinder. >
Be sure that you do this yourself or personally witness the act. I just experienced this myself where a contractor was *paid* money to grind up hard drives in a bunch of old Sun hardware before the equipment was auctioned off online. The contractor even issued 'certificates of destruction' for the drives... long story short, the drives had not been destroyed. They were intact, untouched, not even a software wipe. The drives booted and worked fine. A simple 'boot cdrom -s' to change the root passwd was all it took to view the hard drive's content. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/delete-deleted-data-tp14560809p14562122.html Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
