1. buy old used microwave oven 2. remove platters from old drives 3. shake and bake
;) John Hebert Jeff Crosby wrote: > Which brings up the issue, just how DO you dispose of these types of things. > I have several old hard drives that crashed a few years ago and I just never > got around to throwing them out. Also, after making periodic backups of > crucial data onto CDs every so often those things have just piled up. What > does everyone do to dispose of these things? I don't want to have to take a > stack of CDs out back every so often and beat them up with a > hammer....hehehe. That sounds so primitive in this day and age. I can't > wait for replies to this. > > Jeff > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:40 PM > Subject: [brlug-general] Fwd: [IPG] fun with discarded hard drives > > > >>Hello ebay.. >> >> >><http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993274>http<http://www.ne > > wscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993274>://www.newscientist.com/news/news > .jsp?id=ns99993274 > >>> >>>Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat, graduate students at the Massachusetts >>>Institute of Technology, analysed 158 second hand hard drives bought over >>>the internet between November 2000 and August 2002. They were able to >>>recover over 6000 credit card numbers, as well as email messages and >>>pornographic images. >>> >>><snip> >>> >>>One drive had previously been used in an ATM cash machine and contained >>>2868 different numbers, as well as account and transaction information. >> >> >>--- >>Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Puryear Information Technology >>Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting >>http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>General mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- John Hebert: [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Engineer: I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com 225.922.4535
