Re: destroying hard drives (intentionally)

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Author: Siri Amrit Kaur
Date:  
To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: destroying hard drives (intentionally)
On Thursday 13 January 2005 04:25 am, mike hoy kindly wrote:
> Hi
>
> If somebody wanted to completely destroy a harddrive or flash drive so
> that no data whatsoever could ever be extracted from it how would they
> go about doing that?
>

One of my husband's students destroyed a harddrive in the classroom computer
by blowing the contents of the pencil sharpener receptacle into the computer.
I guess the graphite is magnetic. We used to keep our pencil sharpener
attached to our desk, above the computer. We have since moved it...

Siri Amrit
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