-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Per Jessen via swinog swinog@lists.swinog.ch Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2022 22:40 An: swinog@lists.swinog.ch Betreff: [swinog] Re: How to destroy data effectively?
Martin Ebnoether via swinog wrote:
Hi all.
As some of you know, I work at a money laund... financial company. Some time ago, the question arose, how to effectively destroy data safely and securely in an easy way?
When I worked in money laun... finance myself, in the 1980s, we used _large_ electromagnets.
We used to use a "Degaußer" for hard disks. Recently, a colleague put the degaußed disk back into his PC and could read data without problems. So, either the Degaußer is broken or for whatever reasons it did not work. And this is a problem if you rely on something you can not verify immediately. For example if I use a big hammer I immedialtey see the results. But a degaußed Disk does not looked destroyed - you can not verify it with your eyes.
So, we do not rely on degaußing anymore without verifiying (reconnect and test). So we prefer the hammer or commercial services (which still can fail, but then you can sue someone)
regards Klaus