Re: Wireless security

Derek Moody wrote:
In article <44148647$0$5011$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Old Codger
<URL:mailto:oldcodger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Howard Neil wrote:
Jim Webster wrote:
"Hamish" <akc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:duvh5r$jeg$1$8300dec7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

It is worth remembering that data is recoverable on hard disks,
dump the computer maybe, keep the hard drive.
Alternatively apply a 2lb lump encrypter.

or apply clips from battery charger?

How about an angle grinder?

Nah, a 14 lb sledgehammer is quicker, more satisfying and has results
similar to a shredder.

No. You leave too many chunks of the disc surface intact. It really
is better; though less intrinsically satisfying, to overlay with
*random* bit patterns several times then copy an innocuous disc image
on top and finally another couple of random patterns.

I doubt anyone would be sufficiently interested in my old disks to try to
recover data from a physically shattered unit. In any event I was
responding to "clips from a battery charger" and "angle grinder". I do
agree that overwriting many times is the only real way to dispose of old
data on a disk.

<Snip>

Whatever you do with the drives if you have old PCs to get
rid of contact one of the big charities, several recondition
computers for use in the third world.

They seem to want reasonably modern machines. I have investigated on a
couple of occasions and the sites I looked at had a minimum spec that was
significantly higher than the machines I was chucking. Took them to the tip
and placed them in the recycling area.

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