[Gllug] Securely disposing of old hard drives

[Matthew King]

Chris Bell <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On Mon 20 Aug, James Roberts wrote:
>> 
>> But a quick hole will do for most purposes and will prevent embarrassments.
>> 
>> MeJ
>> 
>    Agreed on all the safety advice, but that all sounds like hard work
> compared with plugging it in and using software to over-write the data a few
> times while you get on with something else.

Ah but you get to make lots of noise with power tools. Running 'dd'
doesn't look anywhere near as impressive.

Matthew

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