[geeks] jackassery from the BBC

[Sridhar Ayengar]

kevin r. marshall wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7816446.stm
> 
> BBC advocates complete physical destruction of hard drives for data saftey.
> 
> Persoannly, until i see data thevies shelling out for scanning electron microscopy, i'm not terribly concerned.
> 
> Maybe we could start a cottage industry with this... go door to door, charge $50 a pop and your only startup costs are an A2 Philips driver and baby sledge.

Not only is this a stupid idea because it makes a bunch of computers 
useless, it's also a stupid idea because it doesn't actually effectively 
destroy the data.

Peace...  Sridhar