[gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-15, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: In my impetuous youth, The first time I got to work under an old ATT unix license, we had several heated debates with nerds from DC and Jersey. turns out I was right; you could kill an phone switch with a single shot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread wireless
On 07/13/2015 10:10 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: With regards to the other replies: I think physical destruction is unnecessary, and I don't really want to go through the trouble. If it's trouble rather than fun, then you're doing it wrong. :) Brilliant statement:: Others favor a high-powered

[gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread James
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com writes: It turns out that one of the first things you do during a coup in a small central/south american county is take over or disable the radio-telphone base stations. [Back then the base stations were much higher power and covered much larger

[gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-12, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: With regards to the other replies: I think physical destruction is unnecessary, and I don't really want to go through the trouble. If it's trouble rather than fun, then you're doing it wrong. :) There's thermite:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-13 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:03:10 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com: On 2015-07-12, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: With regards to the other replies: I think physical destruction is unnecessary, and I don't really want to go through the trouble. If it's trouble