On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote: > on 3-5-2010 3:03 PM JohnS spake the following: >> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:33 +0000, David G.Miller wrote: >>> <m.roth at ...> writes: >>> >>>>> m.roth at ... wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>>> Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that >>>>>> you could disassemble the disks and use thermite. >>>>> Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case. >>>>> >>>> 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" >>>> >>> 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. >> ---- >> 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 > Gonna be hard to SEE a hard drive with the Garand's iron sights at 1000 yds, > much less HIT one. > 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.... :-) Cheers! mhr