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Almost as good would be a nasty that triggers the SECURE_ERASE command built into most current hard drives.
I have often wondered if there was a way to access the internal LBA layout table1, and wipe it out, or better yet, scramble it.
1 Most people are aware that the "old" cylinder/head/sector nonsense that one once HAD to use in partitioning a hard drive is no longer necessary; there is STILL some internal table that maps a specific LBA to the physical sector containing the data. If one could only fuck up THAT table!!!
