<div dir="ltr">yes - dd + hammer. <br><br>true story - we did a security audit for a h-tech client who conveniently put all their decommissioned disks in a barrel in the yard of the factory. <br><br>:-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Shachar Shemesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz">shachar@shemesh.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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3. Use a 10kg hammer. <br>
We have clients that insist on physical destruction of the data disk
after a network surveillance.<br>
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Do you, at least, FIRST run the dd? I'm sure you realize that
recovering data from a disk that got only the 10KG hammer is much
easier (and cheaper) than recovering data from one that got only the dd
treatment. As an added bonus, you just marked that disk as interesting
by physically destroying it :-)<br>
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Personally, I think the best solution for anyone who cannot afford to
physically melt the disk platters is to dd the entire disk, and THEN GO
ON USING IT for another project.<div class="im"><br>
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Shachar<br>
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Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
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