Secure disk destruction [was Re: Floppy recovery]

[Stefan Skoglund (lokal användare)]

tor 2016-01-07 klockan 15:08 -0500 skrev Mouse: 
> > Well, if you don't have access to thermite [...]
> 
> Actually, red heat is well above the Curie temperature for most media,
> isn't it?  You could chuck the platters into the coals of a bonfire,
> let them get up to a nice cherry red.  Depending on what the platters
> are made of, this might even melt them, which should effectively
> destroy any organization in the material that once formed a thin film
> on them.  If not, it should demagnetize the coating....

Unhealthy.

I would expect that to generate a fair amount of sulphuric and
hydrochloric acid.
A fair bit of the shit inside the HD also would end up in the nearby
soil.