[clue] secure erase techniques?

[Grant]

DBAN. Enough said.
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Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

In short, I'm giving one of my older PC's to a friend's friend.  One of those, I don't need it, things.  In any case, in terms of secure destruction of drives, my father's always taught me to disassemble the drives and throw the heads and the platter out separately.  Can't do it here, they need the drives, so I thought I'd ask for advice in case we have members who might know a thing or two about this sort of thing.  I figured I'd probably just boot it to a live CD and nuke the partitions, and that's probably enough, after all, I don't need like a military-grade erase, but I'll settle for making it @#$@#$@$ hard to recover.  Any suggestions are welcome.

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