Re: apple mini
On Wed 08 Jan 2020 at 19:57:10 (-0700), ghe wrote:
> > 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.
No, don't mix degaussers and disks. If you want to reuse them, they're
likely too damaged. If you're concerned about data recovery, then they're
unlikely to be erased enough to prevent it.
Cheers,
David.
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