[DM-MUG] Fwd: Re: [MacLaw] Proper destruction of harddrives, fyi

[Victoria L. Herring]

>Opening and damaging the platters is LESS secure... and dangerous. Need
>gloves and safety glasses, etc.
>
>I just had a case where someone tried to prevent recovery of data by
>tossing the drive out of a 3rd story window a few times. It wouldn't
>boot or mount, head was locked, etc.... so they thought it was dead and
>they were safe.
>
>Didn't faze our recovery a bit... a few bad sectors, but EVERYTHING else
>was recovered, including the smoking gun we needed.
>
>They did all that work for nothing.... but 2 minutes to download and
>install a wiping program and they would have been home free.

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