Ed Skinner wrote:
>On Thursday 13 January 2005 04:25, mike hoy wrote:
>
>
>>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?
>>
>>
>
>Open it and then incinerate the media at a high temperature. For rotating
>magnetic media, the high temperature does several non-reversable things.
>First, it causes the oxide to oxidise much, much more (hence the need to
>"open it" before burning). Secondly, the platter material (metal or glass)
>will deform. And thirdly, and residual magnetism in the platter material is
>significantly lessened (because the high heat enables the individual atoms to
>alter their orientation).
>For solid-state media (e.g.., compact flash), the material is oxidised (and
>undergoes other chemical changes in exposure to the open air) and physically
>deformed.
>For either type, exposing the media to a blowtorch should be sufficient.
>
>Too bad neither Ben Avery nor the Scottsdale Gun Club permit the use of
>anything other than paper targets. A couple of .45-sized holes would do
>pretty good, too.
>
>
Bravo BRAVO!
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