Imre,

As I pointed out in response to Peter's post, the OP was only looking 
for a secure wipe of the unused portions of the drive.  Consequently, 
the British Post Office and Hungarian Customs are not appropriate 
solutions :-)

Dave

dr. Imre Bartfai wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In Hungary there is a better way: declare value as $1000 or more and u 
> will not hear about it any more... I bet not even CIA would find it 
> again.
>
> Imre
>
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Peter Moreton wrote:
>
>> In the UK there is a secure way to destroy a HDD - put it in a parcel 
>> marked
>> 'fragile' and post it. Not much survives the care and attention of the
>> British Post Office. :-)
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On 
>> Behalf Of
>> Spehro Pefhany
>> Sent: 17 December 2004 05:30
>> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>> Subject: Re: [OT] Hard drive secure eraser
>>
>> At 11:36 PM 12/16/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>> if you want to be DoD level 2 secure, there's a procedure to erase
>>
>> securely.
>>
>>> level 3 is sending drive through a chipper after level 2 erasure.
>>> (look up DoD secure wiping tool on google, or the DoD secure wipe
>>> spec's)
>>>
>>> andrew
>>
>>
>> Not having access to such a "chipper" (or to my preference, which 
>> would be a
>> cement kiln), I just hang onto every hard drive forever. They all fit 
>> nicely
>> into a small box. I have ones marked that are from other sources such 
>> that
>> can be disposed of without worry or fear.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the
>> reward"
>> speff@interlog.com             Info for manufacturers: 
>> http://www.trexon.com
>> Embedded software/hardware/analog  Info for designers:  
>> http://www.speff.com
>


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