Jonathan Thornburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Melting the CD should work... but in practice that takes a specialized oven
(I seriously doubt my home oven gets hot enough), and is likely to produce
toxic fumes, and leave behind a sticky mess (stuck to the surface of the
specialized oven).
For no
There are various versions of getting rid of a disk file.
2) Zeroizing the blocks in place (followed by deletion). This
is vastly better, but still not entirely secure, because there
are typically stray remnants of the pattern sitting beside
the nominal track, and a
John Denker wrote:
Dave Howe wrote:
Hmm. can you selectively blank areas of CD-RW?
Sure, you can. It isn't s much different from rewriting any
other type of disk.
Yeah, I know. just unsure how effective blanking is on cd-rw for (say) a pattern
that has been in residence for two
You missed the old standby - the microwave oven.
The disk remains physically intact (at least after the
5 seconds or so I've tried), but a great deal of pretty
arcing occurs in the conductive data layer. Where the
arcs travel, the data layer is vapourized.
The end result is an otherwise intact
Anton Stiglic wrote:
I agree. The cryptodox page looks nice, but I would rather see the content
go in wikipedia, which is worked on, and looked at, by many more people, a
really beautiful community work.
There is also the wiki crypto wikibook, which is sorta a co-production and
shares a lot of
