On 7/20/2012 13:22, clipka wrote:
> Am 20.07.2012 20:54, schrieb Le_Forgeron:
>> Le 20/07/2012 19:46, clipka nous fit lire :
>>>
>>> Quiz: If you had highly sensitive data on your hard drive, and needed to
>>> erase it for sure - would you rather trust this alleged fact, or have
>>> the erasing software write random numbers just in case?
>>
>> If the data on drive was so sensitive, I would use chemistry first. Then
>> a bit of heavy hammer physic, and finally a good heat with partial
>> ionisation, at temperature far above the curie point.
>>
>> Boiling HCl is probably enough, as a starter. (get ride of most iron &
>> steel). Wear a protective mask and operate under well vented condition.
>
> Not recommended if you want to continue to use the hard drive though.

If it's not sensitive enough to pay to replace the drive, it's not sensitive 
enough to worry about whether you're erased with zeros or with random data.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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