19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
5:57 a.m.
1.) Run Norton WipeDisk pgm writing 1s & 0s three
times.
2.) Low level format
3.) WipeDisk three more times.
Trust me, when I was done, there wasn't anything recoverable there.
If you did:
4) Smash disk into small pieces and heat until
molten slag
then you protected yourself against people
armed with a scanning tunneling microscope
(which are surprisingly cheap these days ...)
Of course, that begs the question, why did
you bother with steps 1-3??
Or maybe things were just not as
secure as you thought?
Antonio
19 Apr
19 Apr
6:36 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
OK. I have a much better, more secure way to obliterate data from
IDE/SCSI drives.
Just
1) Remove partitions
2) Donate drives anonymously to local Linux/*BSD User Group
Doc
1.) Run Norton WipeDisk pgm writing 1s & 0s
three times.
2.) Low level format
3.) WipeDisk three more times.
Trust me, when I was done, there wasn't anything recoverable there.
If you did:
4) Smash disk into small pieces and heat until
molten slag 
7:54 a.m.
Doc wrote:
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
OK. I have a much better, more secure way to obliterate data from
IDE/SCSI drives.
Just
1) Remove partitions
2) Donate drives anonymously to local Linux/*BSD User Group
Doc
Also takes care of any malicious virusware that was on them :-)
I have reinstalled OS'es on used machines for people who got them from
3rd parties. I no longer even bother to see what's on them. You don't
even want to know what some people have on their disks. Trust me.
jbdigriz
1.) Run
Norton WipeDisk pgm writing 1s & 0s three times.
2.) Low level format
3.) WipeDisk three more times.
Trust me, when I was done, there wasn't anything recoverable there.
If you did:
4) Smash disk into small pieces and heat until
molten slag
2 p.m.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, James B. DiGriz wrote:
I have reinstalled OS'es on used machines for
people who got them from
3rd parties. I no longer even bother to see what's on them. You don't
even want to know what some people have on their disks. Trust me.
It's like doing laundry for a living. The first 50 frilly brassieres
I saw _may_ have been interesting, but the 500th one is just another
dirty rag.
Then again, there was a guy here about 3 years ago who took his PC in
to Dell for warranty repairs. With a couple gigs of child porn on the
drive. The Dell tech noticed some odd filenames on the Start menu's
"Documents" list and found the stash. Dell fixed the computer, called
the guy to come get it, and the idiot did. The FBI met him at his car.
Doc
11:07 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:36:15AM -0500, Doc wrote:
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
OK. I have a much better, more secure way to obliterate data from
IDE/SCSI drives.
Just
1) Remove partitions
2) Donate drives anonymously to local Linux/*BSD User Group
Oh, oh. In this case, better-than-average (usually) technical knowledge
and curiosity form an interesting mix. The first that would happen to
those disk is someone trying to get at whatever data has been on these
disks before (I already found some pretty amusing things on SCSI disks I
bought used).
I'd rather follow the data destruction the US military is reported to
use for disks that at some point have may been tainted by secret data:
1. run disk wiping tool, writing several patterns in several cycles,
2. smash disk with big sledge hammers,
3. mix disk remains with liberal amounts of thermite,
4. ignite,
5. smash slag with sledge hammers,
6. if anything remains that can be identified as part of an harddrive,
goto 3,
7. transport remains with armed transport to secure dump facility,
8. let it sit there under the eyes of armed guards until hell freezes
over or nobody even knows that there could once have been data on
these destroyed disks - whatever happens first,
I've no idea if this bears any similarity to fact, but this description
has been circulation for some time ;-)
Regards,
Alex.
--
We're gonna be body guards for teen rock-stars. Wouldn't the cause of freedom
be better served if we killed them instead?
-- Schlock from the ''Schlock Mercenary'' comic
strip
1.) Run Norton WipeDisk pgm writing 1s & 0s
three times.
2.) Low level format
3.) WipeDisk three more times.
Trust me, when I was done, there wasn't anything recoverable there.
If you did:
4) Smash disk into small pieces and heat until
molten slag
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