Re: Hard Drive data security

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On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Alessandro Bottonelli wrote:

> If the drive contained high level classified data and I were concerned 
> that some "agency" (with motivation and tools) may be interested in 
> them, then probably I would trust no wiping tools and I would simply pay 
> the extra price for not returning the drive to the manufacturer and take 
> care personally of destroying physically the drive before disposing of 
> it. Many gray-scale scenarios may lay in between those to extremes.
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right. there are some situations where the only "good enough" way to 
destroy data is to smash the drive with a sledgehammer until there's 
nothing left but powder. wear safety glasses!

of course, this will probably void your warranty, so you won't be able to 
send it back to the factory. i guess that qualifies as a security 
trade-off.


        ...atom

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