Author Topic: Recommendations Destroying Storage Media?? (Read 29,170 times)

housetier · « **Reply #25 on:** December 27, 2007, 01:26 PM »

Thinner might work too, but can't be considered harmless... Aren't there supposed to be bacteria that eat CDs, at least the part that holds the actual data?

app103 · « **Reply #26 on:** December 27, 2007, 01:49 PM »

WARNING: these are all listed as 'Don't Try This @ Home'

How to destroy CD's.
This one does contain a thumb drive.
And since iPods can hold sensitive data, you might want to know how to destroy those too.

Veign · « **Reply #27 on:** December 27, 2007, 03:02 PM »

For CD destruction I recommend the MailMate Shredder (handles CD's):
http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StaplesProductDisplay?errorUrl=zipcode&storeId=10001&jspStoreDir=Staples&zipCode=29224&partNumber=649935&catalogIdentifier=2&langId=-1&ddkey=StaplesZipCodeAdd

I have had this shredder for a while and it works great. Unopened junk mail, cd's, papers with staples in it - handles it all.

tinjaw · « **Reply #28 on:** December 27, 2007, 06:54 PM »

Ditto to Veign and the CD shredder. I bought one and gave my old shredder to a friend.

I did a normal delete of all the files. Then used eraser to do a seven time 0/1 write and then used it to write pseudo random data to it. Once I did all that, I realized that CF and USB sticks could be ripped open and the memory chips ripped apart with a pair of pliers.

I did the same with the hard drive platters. It's all good practice for when the US Government becomes a totalitarian state in a few years and I am deemed a member of the rebel alliance.

Author Topic: Recommendations Destroying Storage Media?? (Read 29,170 times)

housetier

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app103

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Veign

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