[Gllug] Securely disposing of old hard drives

[Richard Jones]

I've got a stack of old / obsolete hard drives.  Suggestions as to how
to get rid of them securely?

I'm not worried about MI5 / govt agency security, but I would like to
prevent some casual thief fishing one out of the bin and grepping for
passwords and bank account details.

My best idea so far was to dismantle them, but there are quite a lot
(about 20) so this would be time-consuming ...  Another thought was
that soaking them in water ought to be enough to damage the
electronics sufficiently to stop them from just working.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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