On Sunday 25 March 2012 17:22:45 Bryn wrote: > Yeah there's a note on my todo list about writing a data destruction > policy!!! AFAIK dban works and has been certified by someone or other > cleverer than me. > > I believe Jamies use a paid for tool (paid per use not by single > licence!!!) as part of an agreement with a supplier of PC's to them.
There are those who believe that it is virtually impossible to ensure that data on an HDD is unretrievable, no matter what you throw at it, how much you are willing to spend on it or how much trouble you are prepared to go to. Some people believe that simple destruction (say with the help of a large hammer and strong magnet) is enough, but Hugo Mills once said that the only way to be absolutely sure that the data on an HDD is utterly unretrievable is to melt the disk in the centre of a very hot furnace. He said the temperature that he believed necessary to be absolutely sure, but I'm afraid that I can't remember it. Most data is clearly not worth that amount of trouble. But if you were afraid that the Nazi war machine could use the data on the drive to drop an atom bomb on your population, what would it be worth then? Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
