Re: Optical media destruction Was: Hard drives v. CF/Smart media/etc.

What about a microwave oven? :)
http://apache.airnet.com.au/~fastinfo/microwave/cd/


> On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Herman Frederick Ebeling, Jr. wrote:
> > From: Brian Loe
> > :  Better than optical? Surely you've by now nuked a CD - in my 
> > experience,
> > : between that and breaking one, the data is pretty much toast.
> > :
> > : If you break a CD, do you think you could tape it together and get it 
> > to
> > : spin up?!
>
> This is not the right question :-) If the CD would not spin up it
> `will stop your kid sister from reading your files' but it will *not*
> `stop major governments from reading your files' -- they are quite
> likely to employ device with slowly moved laser instead of spinning
> the media.
>
> > Can't say that I have, YET.  But *IF* I really wanted to "kill" a CD
> > I'd nuke it, take it outside to the sidewalk drop it put my foot on
> > it and do the "twist" on top of it.  Flip it over and repeat, THEN
> > break it up into a "gazillion" pieces.
>
> It is quite possible to resurrect a lot of paper from `gazillion'
> pieces:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder#Unshredding
> So, I guess, it is possible to combine a single CD, and once it is
> combined you can use the above (fictitious?) device. Of course, this
> device can be used for finding matches in the first place.
>
> --
> Regards,
> ASK

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