Re: "Hard drive destruction 'crucial'" (BBC)

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:50:02 PST, nick hatch said:

> I'm willing to say that nobody (spooks or otherwise) reads data off a HD
> using AFM. It's just not the right tool. If you're worried about it: hit the
> case with a hammer hard enough to bend/shatter the platter. A bent platter
> would be a nightmare for ANY microscopy technique, even for a theoretical
> custom spook machine.

Actually, you have that bass-ackwards.  A bent platter is *more* likely to
be recoverable than a single overwrite.

Look at what these guys claim to have recovered from:
http://www.drivesavers.com/company-info/museum-of-bizarre-disk-asters/

Some of those look like there's no way the platters *couldn't* be warped/bent.

And still recoverable, but they won't touch single-overwrites.

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