[MacDV] Re: OT: Best way to destroy used CD-R's

[Frank Fitzpatrick]

Seriously,
I have the same need to protect sensitive information.
To protect sensitive data, a CD does have to be destroyed in the right way,
whatever that might be.
Companies that specialize in recovering data can gather information from a
CD that has been severely scratched without any great difficulty. Even a CD
that has been placed on a rough cement driveway and scratched vigorously
with your foot is not protected if someone wants to pay the cost of
retrieval. 
I don't know the answer myself. I read about this problem in a newsletter
from roxio.com or maybe even back when it was still adaptec.com making the
CD burning software. I think we need an expert here on data recovery to tell
us what really works to make CD data completely unrecoverable.
Was the microwave solution a joke or does that really somehow work?
If the CD Shredder was a joke, too, I think it would be a great idea -
obviously not designed like a paper shredder, but as a layer scraper,
perhaps.
Frank Fitzpatrick

> From: Susan Tomanek <s.tomanek at gte.net>
> Reply-To: "Macintosh Digital Video List"<MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 05:03:32 -0800
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: OT: Best way to destroy used CD-R's
> 
> we shred them. got a cd shredder at office depot.
> 
> ----------
>> From: Dwayne Bradley <dwayne_bradley at mac.com>
>> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>> Subject: [MacDV] OT: Best way to destroy used CD-R's
>> Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2003, 4:49 PM
>> 
> 
>> I know that this is a little off topic, but I thought that this group
>> should have plenty of experience with this.
>> 
>> What is the best way to destroy used CD-R's?  I have several that have
>> personal backup data which is very old that I no longer need and I do
>> not want to just throw them in the trash with this data still
>> accessible.  What does everyone think?
>>