Destructive Windows Script

[John J. Lee]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:

> > I take this to mean the the drive is non-functional and might
> > have well been melted, except that demagnetising is cheaper.
> 
> Yup.

In a frequently cited scary paper (on the web &c.), Peter Gutmann claims
claims that's not true in practise, IIRC:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html


Go for the thermite reaction instead!-) (please don't try that at home, kids)


John