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From: bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu (Bobby D. Bryant)
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Subject: Re: Wiping a disk clean
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On Wed, 03 Aug 2005, "Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com> wrote:

> Keith Thompson wrote:
>> I've heard stories of requirements to erase disk drives using
>> thermite.
> 
> Metal grinder.  Nothing left but powder and shards.

Which must then be thrown into a black hole.

Though with Hawkins conceding his famous wager, even that might not
be enough...

-- 
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas