Re: apple mini

[ghe <ghe@slsware.net>]

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 07:46 PM, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> If you need to protect against an attacker willing to examine your HDD with magnetic force microscopy, there is no substitute for physical destruction of the media.
> 
> Yes--if single-pass all-zeros erase isn't sufficient, the next step up is physical destruction, not multi-pass pattern mumbo-jumbo.

Back in the analog days, I worked at a college radio station that sent out radio programs on tape. There was a big box that we passed a reel of tape over to erase it. That box might do disks too :-)

Unless there was some magnetic magic written on the disk for the firmware.

-- 
Glenn English