Hello Edwin,
Edwin Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
> Firstly, apologies as this is really unrelated to Linux...
> i have an old and totally malfunctioning laptop, as well as a spoilt
> harddisk that i would like to dispose of. How can i best dispose of
> them given two considerations:
> 1. Environmental friendliness
> 2. Paranoia (as in, me... hehe, i don't remember what data i had in
> those things when they were last working (quite some time ago), but i
> won't want anyone to be able to access them). OK OK i'm probably not
> important enough for anyone to want to snoop around, but still...
> Would appreciate your suggestions! Thanks in advance!
> Regards,
> Edwin
1- For the environment I'm not too sure. Probably return the disk to a
manufacturer
they are the one who'll know how to recycle it since they are the
one who built it.
2- For data security, the best is of course a full degaussing, but it's
really hard and long to
perform on a harddisk, hence I recommend writing null characters on
your disk
(filling your disk with null characters using the dd command) as
well as a crude
degaussing (use a strong electromagnet on an open harddisk) : the
air should already
kill your harrdisk beyond salvage, the crude degaussing will make
sure whatever
is salvaged is either null characters or other magnetic induced rubbish.
Hope this helps,
Have a nice day.
Fabrice.
--
Fabrice A. Marie
FMA Risk Management Solutions
http://www.fma-rms.com/
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