What the hell is this!!! was Re: I need a ST-419 hard dr

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Feb 19 01:14:17 1999

At 08:33 PM 2/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> Standard for who? US DOD requires they be dissolved in acid. Drilling
>> would certainly be safer, cheaper and faster but not totally secure.
>
>For a slower but perhaps even more effective method, how about giving the
>disk to a technically inclined seven-year-old with access to his dad's tool
>set? :-)
>
   I had one woman call me and ask my advice about how to render a
non-working drive totally unreadable since they had confidental business
information on it. My advice was to take the drive out of the computer and
smash it up with an axe. She told me later that that she got enormous
satisfaction out of mangling it!

   Joe
Received on Fri Feb 19 1999 - 01:14:17 GMT

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