<p dir="ltr">Also, it the drives won't mount they'll need to have the platters destroyed, no?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Still pricey.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 17, 2015 5:18 PM, "David Thornton" <<a href="mailto:northdot9@gmail.com">northdot9@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Wipe or destroy? Dban is better than rm.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 5:07 PM  <<a href="mailto:phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca" target="_blank">phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">From Metro News today:<br>
<br>
Two top McGuinty aides charged in gas plants computer probe<br>
<br>
....<br>
Faist was paid $10,000 for wiping the drives out of the taxpayer-funded<br>
Liberal caucus budget, police allege. The party subsequently repaid the<br>
sum to the public treasury.<br>
....<br>
<br>
Ten grand to erase some hard drives?<br>
<br>
Boot a Linux CD or USBKey.<br>
Change to the root directory.<br>
rm -rf *.<br>
<br>
Done.<br>
<br>
Or maybe it was $50.00 to erase the drives and $9950.00 for 'discretion'.<br>
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Peter Hiscocks<br>
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