On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:36:01PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:31:04 +0000 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk allegedly wrote:
Drilling holes in old disks before taking to the tip? Does that work well? I usually run DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke) on them, then break the sata or IDE pins off. Physical damage to the platters if something I'll consider. Do you just use a hand drill? Does it work well? Any tips??
Personally I've found that a 6 inch nail and a 2 pound lump hammer works wonders. Of course, I'm sure that the metric equivalent would do equally well.
I still wonder that anyone believes such extreme measures are necessary! Criminals are not, in the main, super intelligent computer gurus.
Simply using one of the overwriting utilities is going to prevent anyone except the CIA from reading your disks and it'll cost the CIA way more than the money in your bank accounts to do it (even if they can).
Apart from anything else 99.99% of criminals won't know a thing about Linux.
I do make sure that in the main there's no useful (to someone who wants to get my money) information stored on my disks. I don't let browsers store passwords or anything like that.
In this day and age of SSDs erasing is easy anyway isn't it? Though I bet some conspiracy theorist will come up with a way that some nefarious secret/spy agency has come up with a way to read overwritten data on an SSD.