full-disclosure - Erasing a hard disk easily

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407131304120.17477-100000@idle.curiosity.org>
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.



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