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Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk

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On 10/15/13 9:33 PM, in article
1lauar2.v6zbdw4ks227N%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz, "Jamie Kahn Genet"
<jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:

> Erik <spam@this.com> wrote:
> 
>> In article <Kradne9qtqI9AcDPnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>>  Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> So I'm selling my older iMac.
>>> 
>>> Filevault 2 is on.
>>> 
>>>     So if I
>>>  delete all the files
>>>       Remove the account
>>>       Turn off filevault2
>>> 
>>> Then I assume the files are practically unrecoverable (I'll destroy the
>>> recovery key as well, naturally...).
>> 
>> Personally, I always remove and destroy the hard drive/s from my old
>> computers... then and only then I'm 100% sure nothing will be recovered.
>> 
>> As a side note, I was in one of those 'thrift' stores with a friend a
>> while back... and was amazed to not only see enormous heaps of old
>> computers that'd obviously not been taken apart, but overflowing shelves
>> and buckets of old hard drives seemingly offered by the pound to any and
>> all data miners who might happen by... astounding... gave me the creeps.
>> 
>> Erik
> 
> It's extremely hard, if not impossible for the average person or even
> governments to recover overwritten data off todays super dense HDs, so
> physical destruction seems like it's going way overboard (unless the HD
> died and there's no way to be sure the data is overwritten), and rather
> wasteful, to my thinking :-)
> 

But it is so much FUN to get out the old sledgehammer and do some rhythm
exercises! 

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Selling iMac - Securing the disk Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-15 15:50 -0400
  Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk billy@MIX.COM - 2013-10-15 22:49 +0000
    Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-15 18:00 -0500
    Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-16 13:34 +1300
    Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-17 17:54 -0400
      Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-17 18:31 -0400
        Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-17 19:57 -0400
          Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-10-18 13:03 +1300
            Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-17 20:51 -0400
          Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-17 20:53 -0400
        Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-17 20:53 -0400
          Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-18 00:27 -0400
            Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-18 03:09 -0400
      Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-10-18 12:30 +1300
        Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-17 20:03 -0400
        Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-17 20:53 -0400
          Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-10-18 16:01 +1300
            Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-17 23:42 -0400
      Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Erik <spam@this.com> - 2013-10-17 17:27 -0700
        Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-17 20:50 -0400
      Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-10-17 20:53 -0400
  Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Erik <spam@this.com> - 2013-10-15 18:59 -0700
    Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2013-10-16 15:33 +1300
      Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-18 13:08 -0500
        Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Erik <spam@this.com> - 2013-10-18 12:06 -0700
          Re: Selling iMac - Securing the disk Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-19 10:17 +1300

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