[82740] in Cypherpunks
Re: Degaussing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu Jul 3 02:20:37 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:27:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Alan <alano@teleport.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970702100619.20299F-100000@linda.teleport.com>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
The Cypherpunks Shooting Club welcomes you each Sunday immediately
following the monthly CP meeting. Except this August, when certain stalwart
members of the club will be at HIP'97. :-)
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Alan wrote:
> 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. ]:>
>
> alano@teleport.com | "Those who are without history are doomed to retype it."
>
>
