Still recoverable.  I have dealt with pretty badly burnt disks that we
recovered data off.  Really the grinder is the way to go.

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:14:53PM -0500, Christopher Linn wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:25:02PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:25:25AM -0800, Jon wrote:
> > > hi
> > > 
> > >  I see a lot of programs that are available to clean up the disks for
> > > Windows OS. Not wipe a disk but clean up deleted files so they cannot be
> > > recovered.
> > >  Is there any program for OpenBSD that will clean up the disks so that
> > > deleted files cannot be recovered.
> > > 
> > >  (not looking to delete a file securly - but to wipe the disk clean of
> > > deleted file with out affecting the OS)
> > > 
> > > -jon
> > 
> > Grind them up.  There is nothing else you can do to "permanently" wipe
> > disks.  Residual magnetism is always there provided good enough
> > equipment.  If your data is that sensitive there is nothing else but the
> > grinder.
> > 
> 
> put a wood furnace in you garage, get a good hardwood fire going, pop 
> the disk in there, and stoak it again in 2 hours. there you go.
> 
> cel
> 
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