18 Feb
1999
18 Feb
'99
5:14 p.m.
At 08:33 PM 2/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
I had one woman call me and ask my advice about how to render a
non-working drive totally unreadable since they had confidental business
information on it. My advice was to take the drive out of the computer and
smash it up with an axe. She told me later that that she got enormous
satisfaction out of mangling it!
Joe
Standard
for who? US DOD requires they be dissolved in acid. Drilling
would certainly be safer, cheaper and faster but not totally secure.
For a slower but perhaps even more effective method, how about giving the
disk to a technically inclined seven-year-old with access to his dad's tool
set? :-)