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

[phil]

On 30/3/03 9:59 AM, "Frank Fitzpatrick" <ffitzpatrick at cox.net> wrote:

> 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?
>>> 
> 
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