[clug] Hard disk destruction

[Alex Satrapa]

On 30/06/2009, at 22:35 , Mike Carden wrote:

> I *really* can't be bothered reading enough of this again to find the
> bit about destroying media, but here is the unclassified version[0] of
> the Commonwealth Protective Security Manual:

That's the manual regarding the protection of information which is  
sensitive to the defence or economic wellbeing of the nation, and is  
intended to protect us from recovery techniques that are better than  
the best thing we know about today.

My vote is for the wet sandpaper method to remove the magnetic media  
from the substrate. Wet sandpaper because you don't want particles of  
that stuff in your lungs or skin. I'm pretty sure that the stuff hard  
drives are made of is not stuff you want inside a human body.

The thermite method seems much more fun though, if a little harder to  
implement.

Alex

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