Antonio Olivares:
> As to combat that, I do not know, some say use a
> Magnet and put it next to the hard drive that you want
> to be erased for good. By doing that according to
> some there is no way in the world that the FBI can get
> your data. I do not know how true the above statement
> is, but many people that know about computers have
> suggested this.
Aaron Konstam:
I tend to use a 5 lb hammer. Magnets are for sissies.
;-) I had lots of fun doing things that you shouldn't do to an
expensive hard drive that needed wrecking. Shotput onto a concrete
floor, hurling it as far as I could in the garden, disassembling the
mechanism (not easy when you don't have the appropriate screwdriver),
and so on.
I let my nephew loose on the last one, he wrenched the thing apart
through brute force, and removed the platter with a pair of vice grips.
It didn't look anything like it's original shape. ;-)
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