Comments on: Burn your hard drives.

By: Huck

Huck — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:07:02 +0000

The proper way to destroy the information is not drilling holes, but the old one.

Burning.

Magnetic informations will be destroyed if the medium is exposed to some not so high temperature, in the range of 600 degrees Celsius, for some time.

By: Indigo Jo Blogs

Indigo Jo Blogs — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:23:06 +0000

Windoze Vista to encrypt hard drives

The BBC reports about the UK government’s concern that Windows Vista, the upcoming new version of Windows, will make it more difficult for the police to search people’s computers for illegal materials. Guess why that is: The system uses BitLocker…

By: Charly

Charly — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:06:15 +0000

Not good enough. It will be irreparable but not unreadable. Circuit board does not contain any of your information so you don’t have to destroy it and the disk is so full of error correction that i would believe you if you told me that if you drill a hole through it you can still recover all the data on it. Especially when you run an OS, like XP, who likes to move the data on the harddisk

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:09:05 +0000

Seriously, if you want to make the data on a hard drive permanently unavailable, you need to do physical damage to the magnetic medium on which the data is stored. My personal recommendation is the Black & Decker method – drill some holes right through the hard drive; circuit board, disk, and all. It’s even more thorough than smashing it, because you know you’ve done irreparable damage to the magnetic storage medium.

By: Charly

Charly — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:09:25 +0000

But it doesn’t really work to delete the data

By: jim

jim — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:00:05 +0000

Using a sledgehammer on an old drive is actually very satisfying.

By: CapTVK

CapTVK — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:58:35 +0000

Well, now i know a little better why Germany isn’t favourable on doing a census anymore. Trouble is there hasn’t been a proper census in Germany for 2 decades now. And seeing that Wiki link a virtual census (using electronic registers) is entirely out of the question…