[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 14:22 -0400, Bob Toxen wrote:

> The simplest and quickest method that works against all but the most
> persistent hackers (such as NSA and friends) is the following.
> 
> Drill one or more holes the drive and case from top to bottom.  Be
> sure
> to drill through the circuit board too.  I don't know for sure but I'm
> confident that that gives good protection easily.
> 
> For 100% protection I suggest either sanding the platters (sanding by
> hand is fine) or applying battery acid (if your are trained to handle
> it). 


There seems to be some good advice in the manpage for wipe as well,
along with some rather interesting discussion of the subject... from my
Ubuntu system (retrieved with man -t wipe | ps2pdf14 - wipe.ps):

http://www.trausch.us/files/wipe.pdf 

    ? Mike

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