3 Sep
2004
3 Sep
'04
11:25 a.m.
On Sep 3, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
I think this question assumes you only have half of the cd broken in
half.
If I were using that method I would certainly dispose of 1/2 of the
parts in
different places.
For a second there I thought there was a yammer coming on about even
considering the destruction of
data on cd.
>>>> "Fred" == Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> writes:
> So we're a bunch of Hardware/Software
conservationists and up to
> 10% of us are dedicated to destroying old software on CDs.
Fred> If you were to build a device to scan a stationary piece of CD,
Fred> rather than trying to spin it, how much of the data could be
Fred> recovered from a disk with a hole drilled through it, or broken
Fred> in half?
Broken in half -- probably all of it, because the crack is like a
scratch and the ECC handles that. Hole -- possibly all of it, if the
hole isn't too large.
paul