[geeks] jackassery from the BBC

[Phil Stracchino]

Mark Benson wrote:
> As for destroying hard drives, glass platters + big hammer = not
> readily recoverable :o) !

One would assume that any magnetic media, glass or otherwise, should be
able to be completely erased beyond any possibility of recovery by
heating it significantly beyond the Curie point of the magnetic coating
and holding it there for some period of several minutes or longer.


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