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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Scott Silva <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ssilva@sgvwater.com"><ssilva@sgvwater.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">on 3-5-2010 3:03 PM JohnS spake the following:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:33 +0000, David G.Miller wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:m.roth@..."><m.roth@...></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
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<pre wrap="">Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
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<pre wrap="">I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighties told me,
about 10 years ago, that they could flatten out the platters and read some
data. Thermite not only melts the platters, but will hit the Curie point.
mark "and make nice flames and melting metal"
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<pre wrap="">Over the years I've ended up with a pile of old hard drives. Some are
unreliable; some won't even spin up and some are just REALLY old (e.g., 100s
of MB size). I also inherited a couple of rifles (M-1 Garand and M-1
Carbine). I'm thinking write /dev/urandom to ones that will spin but then
take the whole lot out in the country for some target practice. It may be
possible to scape a little data off of what's left after the drive gets hit
with a round from the Garand but I doubt if anyone will want to go to the
trouble. It could also be fun.
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Since most are about 5" x 3-1/2" that makes a perfect MOA target at 1000
yards with 165gr 308. It just goes into pieces of dust.
John
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<pre wrap="">Gonna be hard to SEE a hard drive with the Garand's iron sights at 1000 yds,
much less HIT one.
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With no offense to those involved, I feel compelled to point out that
reading this from the top down is a perfect example of what's wrong
with top-posting....
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Cheers!
mhr
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Methinks MHR makes a very good point. Reading through all this 'may' be
interesting to those of us taken to destroying old hardware by fun
means, it seems hardly on point to those looking for some real info on
'fdisk and dd'. Bottom posting hardly helps the situation. IMHO.<br>
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EW<br>
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