From owner-freebsd-security Wed May 19 23:49:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D06D14E7D for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 23:49:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.50]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990520065202.IDMD7869945.mta1-rme@wocker>; Thu, 20 May 1999 18:52:02 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Darren Reed Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 18:49:40 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: secure deletion Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199905200642.QAA11368@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> References: <37438E4C.4B95B937@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "May 19, 99 10:23:40 pm" X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990520065202.IDMD7869945.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20 May 99, at 16:42, Darren Reed wrote: > I'd worry about this sort of thing when and if FreeBSD is ever used for > storing of (officially) classified/confidential material and even then, > the solution is likely to be to take a hammer or drill to the disks. I know of at least one government department which drills through the platters when disposing of a disk drive. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.FreeBSDDiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message