[BBLISA] DDS Tape Erasure/Destruction Services?

[Bob Webber]

Radio Hack used to sell a bulk tape eraser for under $20.  It's  
pretty effective, especially if you run it over both sides of the tape.

Not as much fun as demolition, though.

Bob

On Apr 18, 2006, at 9:34 AM, David Allan wrote:

> My preferred method of destruction of tapes is to crack the case  
> open (a
> vise helps a lot with that part, although hammer-on-concrete works  
> quickly
> and easily also), take out the tape reel, saw the reel in half  
> (again use
> a vise to hold the reel) and shuffle the resulting 2" bits of  
> tape.  It's
> not perfect, but in my case, the data retrieval would cost vastly more
> than the resulting data.
>
> It takes about 5 minutes per tape, maybe less, if you use a vise,  
> although
> having said that, I've got dozens of tapes, floppies & hard drives,  
> too,
> so if anybody does know of a company that does data destruction of  
> mixed
> media cheaply, I'd be interested, too.  I ran a Google search about a
> month ago and found nothing that looked both reliable and even  
> close to
> inexpensive.
>
> Perhaps we could have a BBLISA data destruction party.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Steve Revilak wrote:
>
>>> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:08:50 -0400
>>> From: Theo Van Dinter <felicity at kluge.net>
>>> To: Back Bay LISA <bblisa at bblisa.org>
>>> Subject: [BBLISA] DDS Tape Erasure/Destruction Services?
>>
>>> I have dozens of DDS and DDS2 tapes which I used to use for  
>>> backups of my
>>> old personal server.  I'd like to get rid of all of them, but  
>>> they still
>>> have data on there that I'd prefer not to let other people have  
>>> access to.
>>>
>>> Is there a local (I'm in between Boston and Worcester) company I  
>>> could
>>> bring these tapes to so that the data will be made non-recoverable?
>>> Preferably inexpensively?
>>>
>>> Basically I'm paranoid but I'm cheap. ;)
>>>
>>> Alternately, is disassembling/smashing the tapes considered "good  
>>> enough"?
>>> I really don't think people are going to be going after my tapes  
>>> in my
>>> trash, but ...
>>
>>
>>> From having attempted to splice DDS tapes back together, I would say
>> that it falls somewhere between exceedingly difficult and freakin'
>> impossible.  I think physical destruction would be fine.
>>
>> Slide the bottom of the cartridge back, flip up the front door, rip
>> off a few arm lengths of tape, crinkle it up, and toss it in the
>> trash.
>>
>> If you're more paranoid than that, get a ball peen hammer, a pair of
>> safety goggles and have a blast :)
>>
>> Steve
>>
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