On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 05:37 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > When I retired I had a hard drive with TOP SECRET things I had written > and commented on. Asked what to do and was told to take it by hand and > throw it in a furnace that was very hot. Did that and it was gone > forever. I'm sure that'd be effective, for various reasons (heat and magnetics aren't friends, never mind the incineration of the contents). But I wouldn't advise trying that for personal drive destruction. No doubt the drive's are built from stuff hazardous to one's health. Lot's of fun though, I'm sure. I have a friend who's got a video of him burning a Windows CD, literally - the installation disc being held over a gas flame. I've toyed with the idea of doing it myself. ;-) -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
