On Nov 11, 2011, at 13:41 , Cotty wrote: > FWIW I once filmed here: > > <http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/> > > and I asked one of the techs what the best method of hard drive security > was if (say) I was selling a computer 2nd hand. His answer was simple > and straightforward: take the hard drive out and destroy it by hammering > nails through the platters. That is apparently the only way to be 100% sure.
As I believe I had mentioned before, that is what we did to surplus Nikon lenses in the Navy, only we used a screwdriver and a hammer on the loading dock of the photo-lab. Cameras too. 16mm to 4x5s. That's paranoia. The gov't has since slackened it rules, it seems. Hence Wikileaks. Joseph McAllister [email protected] “ Nature is considerably more creative and inventive than humankind. Without Nature there isn't any humankind. Without humankind, Nature is fine.” -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

