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Re:Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online by a012 on Friday December 06, 2019 @05:54AM (#21720677)
Nothing is more secure than wipe them with a hammer
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Re:Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online by seb314 on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:12AM (#21720760)
depends on your threat model... if peaces bigger than dust are left over, they might still contain quite a lot of info, right?
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Re:Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online by vidarh on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:13AM (#21721873)
If you mean a big sledgehammer, maybe. Speaking from experience, even with a chisel making more than a dent in a modern harddrive with a hammer in ways that can't be fixed by replacing a pcb or other parts is hard work.
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Re:Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online by tyingq on Friday December 06, 2019 @07:02AM (#21721054)
Aren't commercial degaussers still a thing? A hammer still leaves big chunks.
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Re:Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online by genera1 on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:12AM (#21721868)
They are, and aren't that expensive. Our IT support team has one for workstation drives in a company with around 1000 employees.
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Re:Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online by sharedfrog on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:18AM (#21720790)
Do both!
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