[DM-MUG] Hello Everyone and i have a question

[Jon Thompson]

To properly take a hammer to a drive, you need to open up the drive so  
that you see the platters.  Then you have to make sure that the pieces  
are so tiny that you can't pull information off of them, which the  
average lawyer doesn't know how small to make it (will it blend?  Yes  
it will.)  Remember that on a Terabyte hard drive that you are looking  
at 18.5 gigabytes of information per square inch.  That's a lot of  
personal information.  Each piece of a smashed hard drive _can_ be  
recovered with advanced techniques.

Or...

You can use something that conforms to requirements to protect  
secrets.  DoD, SarbOx, HIPPA all have requirements for destroying  
data, and all do so without actually destroying the disk.  All do  
random rewrites of the hard drive multiple times (to eliminate shadow  
traces of the original data.)
On Feb 26, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> is DBAN for Windows or anyone?  It wasn't clear on the site.   
> Lawyers on the MacLaw list, due to their rules etc., suggest  
> strongly taking a hammer or whatever to and physically destroying  
> the disk.
> -- 
> Victoria L. Herring, Travel Research/Photography, http://www.JourneyZing.com 
> ; Lawyer, Discrimination/Civil Rights, Des Moines, Iowa http://www.herringlaw.com 
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