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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on When Erasing a Hard Drive, Deleting Is Not Enough]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/09/when-erasing-a-hard-drive-deleting-is-not-enough/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/09/when-erasing-a-hard-drive-deleting-is-not-enough/</guid><description><![CDATA[Smash the drive into little pieces?  Not good enough, as the pieces still contain magnetic data that can be read.  The real solution is to put your hard drive to the torch. I put my old drive under a garden-type weed-burning torch until the disk just curled up into a blackened and smoke-belching mass of unidentifiable goo.  Now THAT'S security!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Burn Your Disc for Real]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 9th 2009 2:17PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on When Erasing a Hard Drive, Deleting Is Not Enough]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2009/01/09/when-erasing-a-hard-drive-deleting-is-not-enough/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2009/01/09/when-erasing-a-hard-drive-deleting-is-not-enough/</guid><description><![CDATA[Haha, last time I destroyed a drive I did a 7 pass zero out (military standard) then proceeded to disassemble the drive, scratched the disks, passed a rare earth magnet over it a few times then broke it (the disks) into many many pieces and trashed it over a period of a month in different places.<br> <br>I'm paranoid, and I work with sensitive information with no access to a degaussing machine. What can I say?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kate F]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 9th 2009 2:28PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
