[Gloucs] Fwd: Recycling pcs

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:28:38PM +0100, Glyn Davies wrote:
> HI group,
> 
> Please see the forwarded message from Stilman.
> 
> Is anyone will to take up Stilman's challenge and provide a
> talk/demonstration of the ins and outs of wiping a machine.
> 
> Stilman said he would willing to donate the machine to the Race Online
> 2010 initiative recently mentioned on this list.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stilman Davis <stilman.davis at heuristika.co.uk>
> Date: 5 April 2011 14:32
> Subject: Recycling pcs
> To: glynd at walmore.com
> 
> 
> Dear Glyn,
> 
> I would be interested in donating two (possibly three) old pcs which
> should be able to run Linux (just the boxes, I am afraid, no
> monitors). However, they need to be scrubbed clean and then recycled.
> Would this be of any interest to the Gloucester Linux Group? If so, I
> would be very interested in bringing the machines up to a meeting to
> see it done.
> 
> Regards,
> Stilman Davis
> 
> Heuristika
> web and prepress services
> telephone +44 1453 890 783
> www.heuristika.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Best Regards
> Glyn Davies
> 
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Sounds like a good use for DBAN for one, writing random junk to a disk for the second and
possibly a simple ext3 reformat for the third. Then set someone at them with a forensics disk 
to see what can be obviously recovered.

Andy