Also, it the drives won't mount they'll need to have the platters destroyed, no?

Still pricey.

On Dec 17, 2015 5:18 PM, "David Thornton" <northdot9@gmail.com> wrote:

Wipe or destroy? Dban is better than rm.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 5:07 PM  <phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:

From Metro News today:

Two top McGuinty aides charged in gas plants computer probe

....
Faist was paid $10,000 for wiping the drives out of the taxpayer-funded
Liberal caucus budget, police allege. The party subsequently repaid the
sum to the public treasury.
....

Ten grand to erase some hard drives?

Boot a Linux CD or USBKey.
Change to the root directory.
rm -rf *.

Done.

Or maybe it was $50.00 to erase the drives and $9950.00 for 'discretion'.

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