What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it?

[Arthur Chance]

On 18/02/2015 17:30, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 04:04:36PM -0500, Michael Powell wrote:
>> jd1008 wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Remove the cover. Remove the platters. Smash all platters with large sledge
>> hammer until all pieces are fairly small. Melt material with oxyacetylene
>> welders torch. Repeat smashing with hammer. Soak for few hours in
>
>> hydrofluoric acid.
>
> Probably a case of the cure being worse than the disease!
> OTOH, HF can definitely free you of all worries about harddrives.
>
> Of course if you *really* want to dial it up to 11 you go directly for ClF3.
> Pouring that in the enclosure would probably make further steps unneccesary.

Alternatively, further steps, at high speed and in the direction of away 
become *very* necessary. I presume you're familiar with this quote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride#Rocket_propellant

:-)

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