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Re: Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc.
From: Alloishus BeauMains <all0i5hu5 () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:40:40 -0500
Fire.......just melt it. However, shredding a CD will pretty much do the trick for all but the most dedicated intents and purposes. I almost doubt even the government would go that far to try and resurrect a CD that has been through a shredder. Not only would you have to piece together the CD, and then read the information off of it. You would problablythen need to unscramble the pieces somehow. It would be a super act to actually get the pieces to be correctly aligned, especially if the CD was shredded fine enough. As far as I know, there really isn't an algorithm out there that will unscramble something that drastically fubarred. So, the time you would have to take in order to get it right by hand would be enormous. On 10/24/05, Alexander Klimov <alserkli () inbox ru> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr. wrote:From: Brian Loe : Better than optical? Surely you've by now nuked a CD - in my experience, : between that and breaking one, the data is pretty much toast. : : If you break a CD, do you think you could tape it together and get it to : spin up?!This is not the right question :-) If the CD would not spin up it `will stop your kid sister from reading your files' but it will *not* `stop major governments from reading your files' -- they are quite likely to employ device with slowly moved laser instead of spinning the media.Can't say that I have, YET. But *IF* I really wanted to "kill" a CD I'd nuke it, take it outside to the sidewalk drop it put my foot on it and do the "twist" on top of it. Flip it over and repeat, THEN break it up into a "gazillion" pieces.It is quite possible to resurrect a lot of paper from `gazillion' pieces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder#Unshredding So, I guess, it is possible to combine a single CD, and once it is combined you can use the above (fictitious?) device. Of course, this device can be used for finding matches in the first place. -- Regards, ASK
Current thread:
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr. (Oct 21)
- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. FocusHacks (Oct 21)
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr. (Oct 21)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. FocusHacks (Oct 21)
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr. (Oct 24)
- Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Alexander Klimov (Oct 25)
- Re: Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Terence Summers (Oct 26)
- Re: Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Alloishus BeauMains (Oct 26)
- Re: Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Jeffrey F. Bloss (Oct 27)
- RE: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Brian Loe (Oct 24)
- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. FocusHacks (Oct 21)
- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Fred Cohen (Oct 25)
- Re: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc. Fred Cohen (Oct 25)