How do you dispose of … RESOLVED

[Nick Armstrong]

I went back to the small hacksaw. (ceci n'est pas un blowtorch).

Resolved here too - decorator/joiner who does things here had a grinder in the van: metal cutting disc made short work of 9 platters. They're strange - hard as the devil when intact, if you score through the outer layer, you can snap them by hand like biscuits.



Two sets of halves/quarters now ready for safe disposal in separate locations!

Should avoid a mini Mossak Fonseca situation

[french frank]

hey're strange - hard as the devil when intact, if you score through the outer layer, you can snap them by hand like biscuits.

Two sets of halves/quarters now ready for safe disposal in separate locations!

Corn cobs are a bit like that too - hard to cut but they snap easily.

[Anastasius]

As far as I can see no-one has mentioned the most obvious, easiest, free, workable solution that does not require half the hardware department at B&Q! Aty least for a Mac. Turn on FileVault which encrypts the data on your disk.

[Nick Armstrong]

As far as I can see no-one has mentioned the most obvious, easiest, free, workable solution that does not require half the hardware department at B&Q! Aty least for a Mac. Turn on FileVault which encrypts the data on your disk.

Nah - nothing like a bit of cold steel. They don't like it up 'em!

[french frank]

As far as I can see no-one has mentioned the most obvious, easiest, free, workable solution that does not require half the hardware department at B&Q! Aty least for a Mac. Turn on FileVault which encrypts the data on your disk.

Looks dangerous …

[Dave2002]

As far as I can see no-one has mentioned the most obvious, easiest, free, workable solution that does not require half the hardware department at B&Q! Aty least for a Mac. Turn on FileVault which encrypts the data on your disk.

For most purposes that will probably work, providing you then completely and irreversibly forget the key. I suspect that some security services and some criminal organisations might be able to break in though. Safer to make the data completely irretrievable.

[Anastasius]

For most purposes that will probably work, providing you then completely and irreversibly forget the key. I suspect that some security services and some criminal organisations might be able to break in though. Safer to make the data completely irretrievable.

Mmmmm...now let me see.

On the one hand, a simple couple of clicks. Am I that important that someone is going to drag my hard drive from out of the tip? To then discover that it is encrypted? To then go through the hassle of trying to hack it (and most likely failing) to find that I ordered a pizza last Thursday?

Or spend ages dismantling the hard drive, finding some tools that might irrevocably damage the surface sufficiently - at the risk of doing an injury to myself because I'm paranoid?

LOL....I know what I'd choose.

[Nick Armstrong]

Am I that important that someone is going to drag my hard drive from out of the tip?

My problem is that I used said discs in the process of advising clients about media scrutiny of one kind or another; and that I'm obliged (by a 'Retirement Deed' ) to ensure there's zero chance of confidential data getting out. For me, the grinding of the little circular buggers into several pieces was about peace of mind!