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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users The art of wrecking an hard disk drive. Post 302223764 by joeyg on Monday 11th of August 2008 10:22:51 AM
Old 08-11-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver All depends on how secure you want to be

There are companies out there that physically shred the disk drives - think of a paper shredder on steroids. And, they can provide a statement of physical destruction. Depending on the type and nature of information, this may be the best route to take - especially if you never want to hear your own or company name in the paper for "found data". I have used these services in prior jobs - when the data necessitated it.

Next best would be a combination of program destruction - as already discussed, and some physical destruction. It would at least deter the casual snoop to data.

The prevailing issue needs to be the kind of information and the need for protection. Obviously, credit card transactions or individual finance/health records would be more important than 5-year-old inventory logs from a supplier; and thus would need "better" destruction.
 

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PAPERINFO(3)						     Library Functions Manual						      PAPERINFO(3)

NAME
paperinfo, paperwithsize, paperfirst, paperlast, papernext, paperprev - return informations about a paper SYNOPSYS
#include <paper.h> const struct paper* paperinfo(const char* papername) const struct paper* paperwithsize(double psw, double psh) char* papername(const struct paper*) double paperpswidth(const struct paper*) double paperpsheigth(const struct paper*) const struct paper* paperfirst(void) const struct paper* papernext(const struct paper* pinfo) const struct paper* paperprev(const struct paper* pinfo) const struct paper* paperlast(void) DESCRIPTION
paperinfo() returns a pointer to a struct paper containing informations about the paper with name papername paperwithsize() looks for a paper whose width and height is psw and psh in PostScript points, and return a pointer to a struct paper corresponding to the paper found. papername() returns the name of a paper described by an opaque struct paper object paperpswidth() returns the width, in PostScript points, of a paper described by an opaque struct paper object paperpsheight() returns the height, in PostScript points, of a paper described by an opaque struct paper object paperfirst() and paperlast() return the first and last entries for papers. Iteration from one entry to the next or the previous one can be done with papernext() and paperprev() respectively. SEE ALSO
paperinit(3), paperdone(3) defaultpapername(3) papersize(5) 24 September 1996 PAPERINFO(3)
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