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Re: Degaussing




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-- Lucky Green <mailto:[email protected]> PGP encrypted mail preferred

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Alan wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Bill Frantz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > At 10:02 PM -0700 7/1/97, Alan Olsen wrote:
> > >At 02:17 AM 7/2/97 -0000, Secret Squirrel wrote:
> > >>
> > >>Could someone please point me to a FAQ or somesuch about degaussing
> > >>magnetic media? Thank you!
> > >
> > >Electromagnetic pulse.  You want something as strong as possible.  About 10
> > >megatons should generate a big enough pulse.
> > 
> > It works better if you also expose it to the heat and blast.  :-)
> > 
> > In all seriousness, complete physical destruction of the media is the only
> > sure technique.  Lucky Green's sandblasting sounds like it should work
> > well.  Melting it into slag should also work.
> 
> That reminds me...  I have some old drives I need to take down to the
> shooting range.  (I want to make them an example to the other drives...)
> 
> Sounds like a Cypherpunk project to me. ]:>
> 
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