Originally posted here by Cybr1d
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IN response to secgod:
If you are trying to properly dispose of the floppy disks and the CD roms or any other portable media, which you are not planning on using again, a butane lighter, a shredder or a hammer or anything that you can think of to destroy it...can be quite effective. As for an industry wide tool, many hardware magnetic data erasers are available today. We used those to erase all the data from the HDDs at the Bank i worked for. Before we donated the computers (we were upgrading), we went through each HDD, and passed them through the magnet...as far as I noticed...it was pretty effective. [/B]