Disposing of an old computer securely

[Linux]

Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:05:17 -0700
From: "J.Francois" <frenchie@magusnet.com>
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Disposing of an old computer securely
Organization: MagusNet, Inc. Design * Develop * Integrate
Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us

>I went back thru the thread and there is one issue.
>RAM and Hard Drives can be overwritten many
>times and still be readable.
>
>There was an article in the NYT about a TLA that
>could get data from hard drives that had been reformatted
>and used about 7x due to the miniscule amount of "play"
>in the heads a direct overwrite is not possible.
>
>With RAM you just freeze it with Nitrogen and read the bits.
>The longer a stick of RAM sits without flipping bits, the more
>"readable" it is.

If you need to go through all this, I don't want to know what you have been
doing!

Keith Smith
(not the football player)