The way I understand it, the only GUANTEERED way to get all info off a hard disk is to take the disk out of the case and melt it with a torch. You can do this with the CDs also. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Crosby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Fwd: [IPG] fun with discarded hard drives
> 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 >
