[Gllug] Disk Wipe

[Rich Walker]

Oh, and backtracking to the original subject, all modern drives have a
significant chunk of space set aside for bad sector remapping. If the
drive has enough failures on a sector, then it will discard the
data on it and map in a new one on the next write (I think). This means
that the previous data is still available to anyone who can coerce the
drive into reading the mapped-out sectors.

Unscrew the lid, take the platters out, and scrub them with wire wool.

cheers, Rich.

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