What is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard disks?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:13:50 +0100, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
>Whats wrong with Thermite, easy to make and the heat will far excede
>the Curie temperature of any disk plater material, not to mention
>melting it

In cities, it's dangerous to use for the average citizen, without
putting the neighbours in danger, peroid!