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How to destroy data

Here are a couple of informative and entertaining articles about how to destroy data from the hard disk ...

Burn it, break it, melt it, smelt it, and more ...

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/four-potentially-unsafe-data-destruction-methods/3889?tag=nl.e071


http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/datacenter/five-ways-to-intentionally-destroy-your-data/3848?tag=nl.e071

 

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