A new use for Linux

[Karl Larsen]

Tim wrote:
> Antonio Olivares:
>>> As to combat that, I do not know, some say use a
>>> Magnet and put it next to the hard drive that you want
>>> to be erased for good.  By doing that according to
>>> some there is no way in the world that the FBI can get
>>> your data.  I do not know how true the above statement
>>> is, but many people that know about computers have
>>> suggested this.
> 
> 
> Aaron Konstam:
>> I tend to use a 5 lb hammer. Magnets are for sissies.
> 
> ;-)  I had lots of fun doing things that you shouldn't do to an
> expensive hard drive that needed wrecking.  Shotput onto a concrete
> floor, hurling it as far as I could in the garden, disassembling the
> mechanism (not easy when you don't have the appropriate screwdriver),
> and so on.
> 
> I let my nephew loose on the last one, he wrenched the thing apart
> through brute force, and removed the platter with a pair of vice grips.
> It didn't look anything like it's original shape.  ;-)
> 
	When I retired I had a hard drive with TOP SECRET things I had written 
and commented on. Asked what to do and was told to take it by hand and 
throw it in a furnace that was very hot. Did that and it was gone forever.

Karl