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Default How To Read A Smashed Hard Drive

On Sunday, January 26, 2014 9:19:10 PM UTC-8, Erik wrote:
What did you do -- just wish him luck? :-) (After all your

precautions, it sounds like he would not get anything. :-) (Or, you


could plant some imperfectly destroyed disinformation in there, kind of


like the Japanese and the stolen capacitor electrolyte formula which the


Chinese and Koreans tried to use. I don't know whether that was truly


disinformation, or just plain incompetence somewhere along the chain. :-)




Enjoy,


DoN.






Caught the competitor in the trash eons ago... right before I wised up

and got a shredder. Then after I saw a report on TV where someone was

taking bags of shreddings and piecing them back together, I figured

anyone with a little patience could do likewise.



Really don't go all that crazy with the precautions... have busted up

about 10 hard drives through the years, 3 of which were actually mine...

about 10 or 12 CDR's/DVD's a year, and oh, 3 or 4 shredded document

'dumps' a year. Really just don't generate all that much...



Wikipedia talks about the capacitor electrolyte thing... whoever it was

sure caused a lot of grief...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague



Erik


It's pretty clear to me you still haven't "wised up".