7 Jan
2016
7 Jan
'16
11:59 a.m.
On 2016-01-07 3:50 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
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From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Floppy recovery
Well, if you don't have access to thermite or even a large sledgehammer then
this recommendation of his might be a cost-effective solution:
http://www.diskstroyer.com/Home.html
Even if you do have that sledgehammer this might be useful as a preprocessing step before
final treatment with the aforementioned hammer.
I'm fortunate in already having some of the tools in this kit and some experience in
their use and I can highly recommend this technique, not only for data destruction but
also for relaxation and a source of various unique parts.
I wonder how many of those clocks made from HD platters contain sensitive information;
definitely something else to worry about...
;-)
With modern disks that have glass platters two techniques I have used are:
1. Drive a center punch trough the lid, there are usually convenient
holes covered with labels to make it easy if you don't want to drive it
through the metal.
2. Slam the drive down hard and flat on a cement floor when the drive
sounds like a maraca you are done.
The first is a little more sure as you will almost always shatter all
the platter in one go.
Paul.
>
I've heard that there are "standards" for a number of overwrites, and
> what patterns to use, . . .
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The paper that got the most notice was from Peter
Gutmann from the early 90s.
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
Thank you!
That answers most of our ignorant questions.
I wonder what the cost is to do those techniques.