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From: wk at c4i.org (William Knowles) Subject: Erasing a hard disk easily What computer person doesn't know a few friends that are gun owners? I know we're always looking for new targets, box up the drives and bring them to the Defcon shoot. :) http://www.23.org/~chs/gallery/defconx/shoot/pict2205f.jpeg Cheers! William Knowles wk@....org > From: amilabs [mailto:amilabs@...online.net] > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:49 AM > To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com > Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Erasing a hard disk easily > > > I have a bunch of old computers I would like to donate. Old laptops > with win 95/98 on them and some old tower desktops all circa > 1995-2k. I would like to know if I can just use a magnet to > completely wipe out the data for obvious security reasons. I have > heard about the disk erasers like active kill and Perl utilities for > this but with the ability of data ghosting etc. is this enough? Can > I use a big magnet like a speaker magnet or something like a > degasser to just wipe out the data without having to boot these old > boxes and go through all the extra work. *==============================================================* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ---------------------------------------------------------------- C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org ================================================================ Help C4I.org with a donation: http://www.c4i.org/contribute.html *==============================================================*
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