-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Would you concider donating them to http://www.freetradecampus.com where we would format and load linux on them to give away to needy students?
On Monday 12 July 2004 02:49 pm, amilabs wrote: > I have a bunch of old computers I would like to donate. Old laptops with > win 95/98 on them and some old tower desktops all circa 1995-2k. > I would like to know if I can just use a magnet to completely wipe out the > data for obvious security reasons. I have heard about the disk erasers like > active kill and Perl utilities for this but with the ability of data > ghosting etc. is this enough? Can I use a big magnet like a speaker magnet > or something like a degasser to just wipe out the data without having to > boot these old boxes and go through all the extra work. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA9DWfQEDQWvlbVLkRAiGOAJ9tRFQd4Gr5aOov7E/26Itgd5JPYQCfXohZ WM6QMRR7M/0O8y03DlPRwkQ= =cZAi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
