Obviously someone who specialized in data recovery could get data off a scratched CD, I just want this destroyed enough that some garbage man isn't going to pick my old CDs out of the garbage and pick through them for the lulz.
I don't think they'd do that. Anyway, separate the polycarbonate from the disc and put your feet on both parts and have a rave party
I don't think they'd do that.
When in doubt, C4.
Hey, in this day and age it pays to be paranoid.
You're aware that you could just snap them in half or hit them with a hammer right?
Cutting the disc into two or more pieces is a quick and easy solution, but if you are really paranoid, you have probably already guessed that those crafty folks at the CIA and the FBI can probably put this disc back together and read most of the data off of it. Recently, a man was convicted of murder, partly on the basis of information contained on a floppy diskette that he thought he had destroyed by cutting it to pieces with scissors and crumpling it up. The FBI was able, through a rather elaborate process, to reassemble that disk and retrieve the incriminating information from it.
C4
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