[ILUG] [OT] Secure data erasure from hard drive

[Ole Tange]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Niall O Broin wrote:

> On 8 Jul 2005, at 15:35, Niall Walsh wrote:
> 
> > awful lot of work to make all data on a drive unrecoverable (afair US
> > military emergency destruction involves acid while regular destruction
> > obliterates the drives by explosion).   The exact amount of damage 
> > done would
> 
> A member of this list gets his company's old drives cut in two with an 
> angle grinder. I'd say that's a pretty reliable means of destroying 
> data.

I made Secure Harddisk Eraser
http://www.linux-kurser.dk/secure_harddisk_eraser.html

Harddisk platters are often made of alumnium. Aluminium melts around 700
deg C.  The gas in your kitchen burns at about 1000 deg C. I'll give you a
few pictures on how to combine this info, when my ADSL is back on-line.

If your data is not that sensitive (and you want to give the
archaeologists something to talk about):
http://ole.tange.dk/personen/billeder/harddisk-smadring/dscn0168.jpg
http://ole.tange.dk/personen/billeder/harddisk-smadring/dscn0169.jpg
http://ole.tange.dk/personen/billeder/harddisk-smadring/dscn0170.jpg
http://ole.tange.dk/personen/billeder/harddisk-smadring/dscn0173.jpg
http://ole.tange.dk/personen/billeder/harddisk-smadring/dscn0174.jpg


/Ole