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-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!news-east.rr.com!news-feed-01.rdc-kc.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!tornado.socal.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Wiping a disk clean References: From: Keith Thompson Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xfpt1X9MKV7ZB+u0YcdrAwdLPWg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:45:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.136.120 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: tornado.socal.rr.com 1123109103 66.75.136.120 (Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:45:03 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:45:03 PDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3944 Date: 2005-08-03T22:45:03+00:00 List-Id: Dennis Lee Bieber writes: > On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 07:09:56 GMT, Keith Thompson > declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada: > >> >> I've heard stories of requirements to erase disk drives using >> thermite. > > That would have set off the Halon fire suppression system I'm reasonably sure they took them outside first. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.