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Re: Data Sanitization


From: Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:12:20 -0400

Chris Green wrote:
We just instituted a process for shredding of hard drives.

At least with the 2.5" drives Apple's putting in MacBooks these days, it's absurdly easy.
One whack with a hammer shatters the glass platters into many tiny shards. If you want
more, open the drive and scatter the shards across several dumpsters...

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