Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
2009/5/30 Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel@infinity-ltd.com:
Rick Stevens wrote:
I generally take the drives out to the desert and use /sbin/detonate. As Jamie Hyneman once said on "Mythbusters"...
When in doubt....C4!Can I come with the next time you take one out? They will not let me play with C4 any more. :(
I've never been "allowed" to play with explosives (I don't live in the US). This has not stopped me building up a considerable corpus of personal knowledge about them. C4 is not a particularly cheap or easy thing to use - if you want to blow things up, take some lessons from McVeigh or Kaczynski and use something more common and easy to obtain!
This should probably be taken to another list... But I can not resist one last comment - low explosives like McVeigh was reported to have used would probably send the drive flying, rather then destroying it directly. A shaped charge from C4 will tend to shatter the drive. You could also use thermite (sp) to melt the drive.
Now, if I have a bunch of drives to erase, I would probably ask Steve to let me barrow the induction furnace. Between the magnetic field, and the fact that they would become a puddle, I don't think any data could be recovered. It would add a few impurities to the mix, so it probably would have to go in with a load of scrap.
Mike