[Gllug] Securely disposing of old hard drives

[Panos Savvas]

does the Goverment offer any such free recycling service?

data destruction and parts recycling
http://www.it-green.co.uk/hard%20drive%20recycling.html


On 8/20/07, Ashley Evans <ashley at k2.net> wrote:
>
> Richard Jones wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> Hit each one with a very large hammer.
>
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