The Cypherpunks Shooting Club welcomes you each Sunday immediately following the monthly CP meeting. Except this August, when certain stalwart members of the club will be at HIP'97. :-) -- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Alan wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 10:02 PM -0700 7/1/97, Alan Olsen wrote:
At 02:17 AM 7/2/97 -0000, Secret Squirrel wrote:
Could someone please point me to a FAQ or somesuch about degaussing magnetic media? Thank you!
Electromagnetic pulse. You want something as strong as possible. About 10 megatons should generate a big enough pulse.
It works better if you also expose it to the heat and blast. :-)
In all seriousness, complete physical destruction of the media is the only sure technique. Lucky Green's sandblasting sounds like it should work well. Melting it into slag should also work.
That reminds me... I have some old drives I need to take down to the shooting range. (I want to make them an example to the other drives...)
Sounds like a Cypherpunk project to me. ]:>
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