On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:52:13PM +0200, Ogle Ron (Rennes) wrote: > Why not use an electronic magnet? It's easy and inexpensive in time and > license costs. 1) This would destroy tracking and calibration tracks as well as data tracks, making the drive useless. 2) You need a very powerful magnet to do this. You might as well melt/shred/burn the drives. An excellent paper on the subject of data wiping is "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory", by Peter Gutmann. It can be found here: http://wipe.sourceforge.net/secure_del.html -Ryan -- Ryan T. McBride, CISSP - mcbrideat_private Countersiege Systems Corporation - http://www.countersiege.com
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