[plug] wiping a hard disk clean

[Ben Jensz]

ahah...  well, not quite THAT hard anyway.  Basically in terms of 
someone who isn't into serious professional data recovery really, if 
someone was prepared to pay a substantial amount of money to a data 
recovery mob to try and get access to our data.... I think they'd find 
it cheaper to hire a thug to do a ram raid on the joint and steal some 
of the computers with the data on it :P  (not that there is anything 
particularly interesting to anyone else amongst our data anyway)

Basically I'm just thinking in terms of when our current computer lease 
here at work is up, so the hard disks do have to be functioning when we 
return the computers :)

If I had to make sure the data could never be recovered (i.e. destroying 
the disks), I'm sure my imagination could come up with something :P

Thanks for the replies :)


/ Ben


Bill Kenworthy wrote:

>Oxy Acetelene does a good job.  Seriously! Some security services melt
>the disks so there is absolutely no chance of recovery.  Software
>solutions are vulnerable if you throw enough $$ at it - google showed a
>few hits on this.
>
>So if you want to make sure no-one "tries hard" ...
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