Re: Degaussing

[Alan <alano@teleport.com>]

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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