[geeks] jackassery from the BBC

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:19:10PM +0900, kevin r. marshall wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7816446.stm
> 
> BBC advocates complete physical destruction of hard drives for data saftey.
> 
> Persoannly, until i see data thevies shelling out for scanning
> electron microscopy, i'm not terribly concerned. 

I heard somewhere that SEM doesn't work on the perpendicular write
drives anymore anyway because the data density is a higher resolution
than a SEM can resolve.  Does anyone know if there is any truth to this?