Destroying the drive seems to be the safest if not the only
safe suggestion. After removing the platter(s) from the
drive does any info remain in the electronics (cache etc)?
What are the platters made of? How would one destroy the
platters themselves - burning, magnetically, with an abrasive,
all of he above, or other method?

Remember, just because you're not paranoid,
doesn't mean there's no one following you  :)


>The harddrive controller writes to the surface of the harddrive
>many times with a different set of complex patterns  to try to
>"exercise" the magnetic medium enough that nothing is remaining
>as a "residual" of the original data no matter how deep the recovery
>process might try to go into the surface of the media.
>A secure Wipe might be achieved with as *few* as seven passes...
>The more the better, but it takes a lot of time...
>The really secure alternative is to destroy the drive...  Rick Glazier
>
>From: "Dave Schroeder" <[log in to unmask]>
> > What do they mean by "government wipe" in this thread? Dave