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To: ArrogantBustard
I wonder what the US Gov does to dispose of "classified" hard drives?

From what I've heard, it involves thermite....

44 posted on 01/16/2003 8:29:15 AM PST by steve-b
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To: steve-b
From what I've heard, it involves thermite

You are correct, in some cases. A thermite grenade or two can certainly render a hard drive into molten slag. And they're fun to watch.

50 posted on 01/16/2003 8:51:41 AM PST by strela (Tag lines, eh? I could put my Usenet sig in here, but that would bore you. Or I could ...)
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Debug the drive if your selling your sys or whatever. Debugging wipes all partition info from the drive (data included).
112 posted on 01/16/2003 11:32:03 AM PST by SealSeven
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To: steve-b
Muttly have hammer.

Muttly want Thermite.

Thermite good.
138 posted on 01/16/2003 5:53:20 PM PST by PoorMuttly (Kharmechanic)
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