From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1101264a9f24d62d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Wiping a disk clean Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:55:22 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1123056073 6074 195.25.228.57 (3 Aug 2005 08:01:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 08:01:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: fr, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3924 Date: 2005-08-03T09:55:22+02:00 List-Id: Dennis Lee Bieber a �crit : > I spent 20 years on a program where the only allowed means of > removing a disk drive was to run it into a heavy demagnetizer... And I > mean HEAVY -- it not only wiped the platter of magnetic traces, but also > wiped the motor magnets and the head positioning magnets. IOW: no more > drive (well, the drive controller card might be salvageble). > If you need *that* level of security, I would say nothing beats putting the drive under a road roller... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr