The Great Zero Challenge

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Richard Lamont wrote:
> Mark Sowerby wrote:
> 
>> to "dd" a drive. If there is no need to reuse a drive, I find a large
>> hammer works for me.
> 
> Maybe I'm some kind of closet pyromaniac, but I prefer a blowlamp.
> There's something particularly reassuring about platters heated to
> incandescence and buckling in a cloud of smoke.

Last time I wanted to destroy a disk I just opened it up with a 
chisel.  It was hardly neccessary to deliberately damage the 
platter. When I were a lad they were big chunks of what looked 
like rusty iron. These days they are fragile little things 
smooth enough to work as mirrors. The force used to open the box 
  smashed the disk into what looked like little pieces of shiny 
glass.  It would be difficult to put them together again. More 
or less impossible if you mixed up the bits from more  than one 
disk I would have thought. Or maybe GCHQ recruiters hang around 
at jigsaw conventions :-)