- Erase the drive securely.
- Leave the drive in working condition.
Pick one of these; you cannot have both. If the data is truly sensitive then your only legal and ethical recourse is to destroy the drive, because as long as the drive is intact your data CAN be recovered. You might be able to make someone's life very miserable as they try to recover the data -maybe even to the point that they give up before succeeding- but you cannot make it truly irrevocable.
The NSA recommends melting the drive with thermite, breaking the resulting lump of metal into little pieces, and burying the pieces in separate locations. You don't necessarily have to go THAT far; smashing the drive with a sledgehammer is likely enough to deter anything short of an intelligence agency. But the bottom line is that destroying data involves actual destruction.
Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.
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There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.
