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Is it possible to use a CD burner to destroy data on a disc? I believe this would be possible with a re-writable disc, but would there be a way to 'force' the drive to write random data with the laser over a one-time-burn disc? Would this even do anything?
Dylan
Posted 2013-10-16T04:26:37.023
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Not that I'm trying to help, but breaking the disc shouldn't be enough? Only like the government or so will be able AND somehow will want to read that data... the disc would be not writable anyways. – ranisalt – 2013-10-16T05:00:14.477
Or microwaving it apparently !!! – davidgo – 2013-10-16T06:29:13.270
I'm asking it out of curiosity – Dylan – 2013-10-16T07:34:05.733
Really wonder how this would stand up against forensics. Suppose worse than magnetic media as the CDs contain lots of error correction bits. – bdecaf – 2013-10-16T09:28:37.563
mind you, it'd supplement physically destroying the disc quite well – Dylan – 2013-10-17T05:53:18.337