I wanted to dig this post up from the grave to see if there are any new developments out there. After doing some research, I have come to the conclusion that I would only build a hard drive degausser is to prevent somone in my department from using anything that I have against me.

Issue:

Management has changed in my department (IS) and now management is on a witch hunt. A hunt that would give them any reason to hold anything against us , the department. The management now constitutes 2 techs that got promoted and now think they are over our heads for lack of real managerial skills. Why I know? I have 2 bachelors degrees in Science in Information management and Mangagement and have been harrassed because of their lack of education. I have been reprimanded with little issues used against me such as computer games and such which were pre installed. Mind everyone that reads this, I work as a Network Admin in the department. Lets put it this way, I respect anyone with extensive experience with no education, but neither of them have education or current up to date experience.

I want to build this degaussing device because as of my current social engineering of everyone in management all the way up to our director, I have read and heard from reliable third party information, that anything and everything will be used to hold against us. This includes, studying at work (IS related certifications), and gaming activity (Installed with OS or non-pre installs), internet activity (casual surfing on non company time), etc.... Recent developments and comments made by our supervisor, auditing will start to occur without anyone's knowledge including us within the department. Being company policy I don't care because it is company policy. But springing this on us, being in the department, I feel as if the department is an outsider like the rest of the departments. After all, in our policy, our techs/admins, job description states that we do the auditing of machines in the company.

With that, I am looking at any ideas how to create a degaussing machine that will do enough to render the Hard drive inoperable without the fear the it will be sent to a government agency for further recovery. It wouldn't be in the companies best interest to send off hard drives with shareware and free screensavers to justify the cause.

The degaussing device would have to be small enough to fit in a back pack with the preffered use of the 110v AC outlet with a Coercivity strength greater that 1700.

I was thinking along the lines of using a 300-400watt power supply as the means of power and a TV coil wrapped around a block or something that can be placed inside an open computer and turned on to degauss.

Any comments would greatly be appreciated.

Enforcer