<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 3, 2011, at Jan 3, 201111:43 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:45 AM, James Wu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@gohaddock.com">james@gohaddock.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
As Karl stated, a drill press is a good way to go.<br>
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If you don't have a drill press handy, simply dismantling the drive and removing the platters will make it extremely difficult to recover the data from the platters. If you want to go the extra mile, etching/scratching the platters after they have been removed from the drive should make it nigh impossible to pull data from the platters.<br>
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</blockquote></div><div><br></div>Inside the drive are some remarkably strong magnets that make great fun.<div><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca/" target="_blank">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>
<br>"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin <br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Thanks everyone. Fun answers. I really like the saltwater idea. Breaking the seal is fairly easy. I like to play with magnets so that might be the way to go. I don't have a drill press but a hand one might do if I pry the case open. I figure if the CIA is after me it is to late to destroy the evidence. <div><br></div><br><br><div>
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