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From: macecil at comcast.net (Michael Cecil)
Subject: erase with magnet

At 03:18 PM 4/3/2004, Michal Zalewski said:

 >Some folks made quite brave claims about inability to degauss a disk, one
 >guy even claiming the field needed to accomplish this could possibly kill
 >the operator, but this seems to be quite silly considering there is a
 >number of hardware degaussers for hard drives readily available on the
 >market, some of them certified and used by fairly reputable organizations:

There are?  Show us one.

 >http://www.periphman.com/degaussing/degaussers/v92.shtml

This is for tapes.
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Michael Cecil
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