[82689] in Cypherpunks
Re: Degaussing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Jul 2 03:30:17 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970701220247.03e5d100@mail.teleport.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 23:24:24 -0700
To: Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>, cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 10:02 PM -0700 7/1/97, Alan Olsen wrote:
>At 02:17 AM 7/2/97 -0000, Secret Squirrel wrote:
>>
>>Could someone please point me to a FAQ or somesuch about degaussing
>>magnetic media? Thank you!
>
>Electromagnetic pulse. You want something as strong as possible. About 10
>megatons should generate a big enough pulse.
It works better if you also expose it to the heat and blast. :-)
In all seriousness, complete physical destruction of the media is the only
sure technique. Lucky Green's sandblasting sounds like it should work
well. Melting it into slag should also work.
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