[ILUG] Linux at SpecSavers

[Paul Murray]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix -
<ompaul at eircom.net> wrote:
> Brendan Minish wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 13:50 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
>  I also mentioned it to my own GP (without naming names ) who I am on
>>
>> good terms with in the hopes that he and his colleges may take better
>> care to wipe data on old machines in the future
>
> a little project page on the lug site showing people how to do it - then
> when you do business at least we stand a slightly higher chance of not
> having our data robbed
>
> I do like my own method for data destruction (it involves a drill ;-))
>
> step one write rubbish to drive several times
> step two take off the little seal on the side of the drive
> step three insert small bore drill in housing and let it run for several
> seconds step five wonder if anyone will ever try to recover data from the
> drive
> there is no step four there never will be

Oh yes there will be, step four will be added and it will start a
little something like this:

step four, if you find no moving parts to rub your drill bit on
because its an SSD instead of the now defunct magnetic drives.....

:-p

Paul.