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Nothing is more secure than wipe them with a hammer
by a012 7y ago
Nothing is more secure than wipe them with a hammer
- seb314 7y agodepends on your threat model... if peaces bigger than dust are left over, they might still contain quite a lot of info, right?
- sharedfrog 7y agoDo both!
- tyingq 7y agoAren't commercial degaussers still a thing? A hammer still leaves big chunks.
- genera1 7y agoThey are, and aren't that expensive. Our IT support team has one for workstation drives in a company with around 1000 employees.
- vidarh 7y agoIf you mean a big sledgehammer, maybe. Speaking from experience, even with a chisel making more than a dent in a modern harddrive with a hammer in ways that can't be fixed by replacing a pcb or other parts is hard work.