destroying dvd/cd's

cowbutt

Maplin sell a combination cross-cut shredder/CD destroyer for £39.99:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=A37FH&DOY=15m2

isofa

cowbutt wrote: »

Maplin sell a combination cross-cut shredder/CD destroyer for £39.99:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=A37FH&DOY=15m2

That's pretty good although it doesn't shred CDs, it just makes the "unreadable" by stripe dotting, which is probably fine though! To quote from the FAQ: Q) can you please explain what stripe dotting means? - Katie A) It is effectively lines of circular imprints on the cd which make it unreadable.

Fellows do some heavy duty CD and paper shredders, Staples and Viking Direct carry many different types.

I've a sturdy Rexel cross-cut shredder, but it can't cope with CDs either... Scratching or snapping them in half in a bag usually is fine.

sleep2much

Send them to a government official, tell him they contain confidential material, they will get lost in the post never to be seen again, it's what I do with all my details.

techexpert

You could melt it on the bbq, or incinerate it with a blow torch, or lob it into a bonfire....

robt_2

Going off on a slight tangent here, and this is by no means an attack on the OP.

Do you think as a nation we have become totally paranoid over private data being found?

sleep2much

robt wrote: »

Going off on a slight tangent here, and this is by no means an attack on the OP.

Do you think as a nation we have become totally paranoid over private data being found?

Yes. :beer:

robt_2

sleep2much wrote: »

Yes. :beer:

Glad I'm not the only one

wishiwasarichgirl

give them to me, I have an old hi-fi which is 100% guaranteed to destroy any CD which anyone is silly enough to put into it

Entertainer

Never mind CDs, try microwaving a hard drive, I've done that before- huge fun. I just microwaved a few CDs and that's fun too.

BritBrat

Going off on a slight tangent here, and this is by no means an attack on the OP.

Do you think as a nation we have become totally paranoid over private data being found?

Yes and you should be, unless you have had identity theft you won't know what a pain in the a** it is, takes ages to sort it out.