kill disk - anti identity theft

[TrashyMG]

from Gutmann's original paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory",

Wow old... it's referring to MFM Hard Disk drives.

 

[Christoph.Krn]

from Gutmann's original paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory",

Wow old... it's referring to MFM Hard Disk drives.

Read the epilogues and especially the "Recommendations" from Gutmann's original paper [...]

 

[Binky]

Would exposing your disk to an EMP blast work?

 

[TrashyMG]

from Gutmann's original paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory",

Wow old... it's referring to MFM Hard Disk drives.

Read the epilogues and especially the "Recommendations" from Gutmann's original paper [...]

Eh no thanks.. I got bored after a few seconds of viewing. I think Thermite is another good and more exciting method of permanent data deletion..

 

[T.T.]

I think the best way would probably be just to melt the platters, unless of course they're ceramic, then just grind it to a powder

 

[Nintendo]

Feed it to the lions.

 

[lomaxx]

My neighbour recommends to send the HDs to his wife, as she reliably breaks anything technical, that she get's her fingers on.

 

[Nintendo]

^ lol

 

[Binky]

What about throwing the disk into the sea? (preferably in a deep bit)

 

[lomaxx]

Despite the fact that it will pollute nature, this should only be done with harddiscs from Seagate.

 

[Nintendo]

A volcano, perhaps?

 

[lomaxx]

I know that sometimes I'm a bit boring, but I wanted to mention as a sidenote: It's a urban legend that you have to overwrite a harddisc several times by using different patterns to reliably destroy all data.


Heise (heise.de), which is a well known German publisher of (for example) the C't (computer magazine) some times ago mentioned this. The article can be found here (german): http://www.heise.de/...egt-198816.html There is also a link to the English version of the article at the bottom.


So in Linux, something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<harddiscdevice>" is sufficient, although smashing the drive is of course faster.


Other than that: Feel free to continue bringing in your ideas. I think we didn't mention acid yet.

 

[Binky]

Drop it down a mineshaft...

 

[commander-beef]

Puke on it generally gives you 100% chances that nobody will touch it from a mile. You dont even need to erase the data on it..


maybe "cheese touch" your HDD, will help a lot..

https://www.youtube.com/embed/73DxZPhVOYc?feature=oembed

 

[Nintendo]

Acid bath!

 

[Fzero]

Ha! Cheeeese touch.


Thanks for all the... imaginative solutions.


I'll likely opt for the format & ccleaner before hammer and screwdriver piercing, then thrown in the dump.


...much as I would rather bathe it in acid after shooting it with a magnum then drop it in my nearest volcano.. that just seems a little long for me.


Carry on though, we'll make an 'A to Z of data destruction' manual

 

[Nintendo]

lol @ cheese touch.

 

[elwing]

I still think thermit would be nice...

 

[Nintendo]

Give it to the Russians!

 

[elwing]

hum... KGB...