The Great Zero Challenge

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:18:52 +0100


On 09 Sep 08, at 0031, Dan Beale-Cocks wrote:

> Degaussers have to be pretty hefty to work.  Handheld degaussers  
> (used for tape) won't work.

And don't work for a lot of tape, either.  DAT is very high coercivity  
and can't be erased with typical audio tape bulk erasers, and I  
believe the same's true for LTO.

ian