[82701] in Cypherpunks
Re: Degaussing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan)
Wed Jul 2 14:01:55 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 10:07:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan <alano@teleport.com>
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>, cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <v03007807afdfa4164e9d@[207.94.249.161]>
Reply-To: Alan <alano@teleport.com>
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
> 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.
That reminds me... I have some old drives I need to take down to the
shooting range. (I want to make them an example to the other drives...)
Sounds like a Cypherpunk project to me. ]:>
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