[BBLISA] DDS Tape Erasure/Destruction Services?

[Dean Anderson]

This is what you want. I used to have a degausser---Its meant to used to
de-magnetize things like aircraft engine crankshafts.  (you magnetize them to
find microscopic cracks that might lead to failure--process is called magnaflux)

That does the trick on just about anything.  Of course it took 240V 30Amps, and
caused the lights to flicker.... ;-)  Other big magnets work, too.

		--Dean

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Bob Webber wrote:

> 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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