Re: Hard Drive Forensics Question

["Chris Barber" <cmbarber () gmail com>]

The use of thermite on old drives works quite well and makes for a
nice show as well...

http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/

Enjoy

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Ansgar Wiechers
<bugtraq () planetcobalt net> wrote:
> On 2008-10-08 J. Oquendo wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Oct 2008, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:
> > > > And that would do?
> > > > http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/columbia-drive-recovery/
> > >
> > > I don't think so. How was that disk wiped?
> >
> > Wiped? That drive was recovered from the Space Shuttle that blew up.
>
> Ah, sorry, I failed to understand what you were getting at. It was late.
>
> Yes, a furnace heating the drive at least above the Curie temperature of
> the drive's platters (and keep it at that temperature for some time)
> would indeed do, AFAICS. An explosion is a very different situation,
> because the destructive effects come primarily from volume expansion
> (i.e. physical force) and to a much lesser extent from heat. Also the
> objects are exposed to the heat only for a very short period of time,
> meaning that the casing (or other physical barriers between platters and
> the center of the explosion) will shield the platters from the heat,
> thus reducing the thermal effects even more.
>
> Regards
> Ansgar Wiechers
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