on 3-5-2010 3:03 PM JohnS spake the following: > On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 22:33 +0000, David G.Miller wrote: >> <m.roth@...> writes: >> >>>> m.roth@... wrote: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>> >>>>> Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that >>>>> you could disassemble the disks and use thermite. >>>> Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case. >>>> >>> I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighties told me, >>> about 10 years ago, that they could flatten out the platters and read some >>> data. Thermite not only melts the platters, but will hit the Curie point. >>> >>> mark "and make nice flames and melting metal" >>> >> Over the years I've ended up with a pile of old hard drives. Some are >> unreliable; some won't even spin up and some are just REALLY old (e.g., 100s >> of MB size). I also inherited a couple of rifles (M-1 Garand and M-1 >> Carbine). I'm thinking write /dev/urandom to ones that will spin but then >> take the whole lot out in the country for some target practice. It may be >> possible to scape a little data off of what's left after the drive gets hit >> with a round from the Garand but I doubt if anyone will want to go to the >> trouble. It could also be fun. > ---- > Since most are about 5" x 3-1/2" that makes a perfect MOA target at 1000 > yards with 165gr 308. It just goes into pieces of dust. > > John Gonna be hard to SEE a hard drive with the Garand's iron sights at 1000 yds, much less HIT one.
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