1) There's a _reason_ the gov't requires hard drives with anthing higher
    than 'somewhat' classified data on them to be =physically= destroyed
    before leving the secure area.

no. for modern hard drives it was already proved that

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=1m

is enough to make data unreadable.

for very old drives it may not
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