>>> PGP shredder it is free
>> 1. Is it still free? IIRC they changed the licence a while back.
> 
> Shredding is free so is encrypting files and IM

It does IM now?

Heh, I used to like PGP. Before it became all commercial and 
closed-source and expensive and stuff...

I've experimented with GPG, but that only encrypts files. It doesn't 
offer any other functionality. Oh well! I don't have any sensitive data 
anyway, what do I need cryptography for?

>> 2. Can it erase an entire drive? I know it could do individual files, 
>> one at a time, and I think there was a free space wipe too. But a whole 
>> drive?
> 
> Yes it can but not with the free version, I think. I'm not going to
> try it on my own HD :)

You could see if the button's there or not. :-P

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>> Have you ever *tried* to make a hot fire?
> 
> Hot enough to melt aluminium or glass - no problem.

Heh. I had enough trouble trying to burn through a tree stump!

Now if I had *thermite*... >:-D

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4864acb4$1@news.povray.org...
> Have you ever *tried* to make a hot fire?
>
> It's way harder than it sounds...
>
good quality coke (not the drink), good air-flow, in one word  : a forge 
fire

Marc

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>> Hot enough to melt aluminium or glass - no problem.
>
> Heh. I had enough trouble trying to burn through a tree stump!

Most people in my street make fires daily in the winter that are hot enough 
to burn tree stumps.  You just need to start off with some paper, then thin 
bits of dry wood, then bigger bits of wood, until it gets hot enough to put 
on whole pieces of tree.

> Now if I had *thermite*... >:-D

And how do you plan to ignite the thermite?

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>>> Hot enough to melt aluminium or glass - no problem.
>>
>> Heh. I had enough trouble trying to burn through a tree stump!
> 
> Most people in my street make fires daily in the winter that are hot 
> enough to burn tree stumps.  You just need to start off with some paper, 
> then thin bits of dry wood, then bigger bits of wood, until it gets hot 
> enough to put on whole pieces of tree.

I wouldn't mind, but this way in the middle of a hot summer drought. The 
wood was dry as hell, the sun is beating down on us, and yet the fire 
keeps going out...

We never did get it to turn in the end. Burned a whole heap of paper and 
cardboard, but the tree never got more than mildly scorched.

>> Now if I had *thermite*... >:-D
> 
> And how do you plan to ignite the thermite?

By remote control from a distance of more than 3 km?

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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:52:03 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
>It does IM now?

It says it does AIM, AOL IM

>Heh, I used to like PGP. Before it became all commercial and 
>closed-source and expensive and stuff...

Me too but Dr John said that he would not drink with someone who did
not have it on their HD :)

>I've experimented with GPG, but that only encrypts files. It doesn't 
>offer any other functionality. Oh well! I don't have any sensitive data 
>anyway, what do I need cryptography for?

As Dr John ;)

>>> 2. Can it erase an entire drive? I know it could do individual files, 
>>> one at a time, and I think there was a free space wipe too. But a whole 
>>> drive?
>> 
>> Yes it can but not with the free version, I think. I'm not going to
>> try it on my own HD :)
>
>You could see if the button's there or not. :-P

OK there is a button but you need a licence :(
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     Stephen

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Stephen wrote:
>> Heh, I used to like PGP. Before it became all commercial and 
>> closed-source and expensive and stuff...
> 
> Me too but Dr John said that he would not drink with someone who did
> not have it on their HD :)
> 

Not true! I said i wouldn't _buy_ a drink for someone etc.

>> I've experimented with GPG, but that only encrypts files. It doesn't 
>> offer any other functionality. Oh well! I don't have any sensitive data 
>> anyway, what do I need cryptography for?
> 
> As Dr John ;)

GPG shreds files on all my machines. It can also encrypt a whole
filesystem. What else do you need?

> 
>>>> 2. Can it erase an entire drive? I know it could do individual files, 
>>>> one at a time, and I think there was a free space wipe too. But a whole 
>>>> drive?
>>> Yes it can but not with the free version, I think. I'm not going to
>>> try it on my own HD :)
>> You could see if the button's there or not. :-P
> 
> OK there is a button but you need a licence :(

So install Linux :-) and use GPG

John

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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:42:20 +0100, Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom>
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>
>Not true! I said i wouldn't _buy_ a drink for someone etc.

That's true 
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Regards
     Stephen

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That you give me no Soooooul,
I hear you call-innng.
Oh baby pleeeease,
give a little respeeect,
toooooououo meeeeee.

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> We never did get it to turn in the end. Burned a whole heap of paper and 
> cardboard, but the tree never got more than mildly scorched.

Looks like you needed some smaller bits of wood first, don't expect to light 
a tree with cardboard and paper.

>>> Now if I had *thermite*... >:-D
>>
>> And how do you plan to ignite the thermite?
>
> By remote control from a distance of more than 3 km?

If you had that sort of kit, you'd probably find easier ways to destroy a 
mere hard drive.

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