From owner-freebsd-security Thu May 20 12:52: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from vespucci.advicom.net (vespucci.advicom.net [199.170.120.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB11D14F0D for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 12:51:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avalon@vespucci.advicom.net) Received: from localhost (avalon@localhost) by vespucci.advicom.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA03968; Thu, 20 May 1999 14:51:40 -0500 (CDT) X-Envelope-Recipient: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:51:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Avalon Books To: Dan Langille Cc: Darren Reed , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure deletion In-Reply-To: <19990520065202.IDMD7869945.mta1-rme@wocker> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I know of at least one government department which drills through the > platters when disposing of a disk drive. We used to be required to "de-commission" hard drives by disassembling them, deguassing the platters and them forcibly removing the media with a belt grinder. Both the platters (or what was left of them) and the (now powdered) media were placed into secure storage (policy said for 10 years minimum). It seems a bit extreme, but I will admit it *is* a secure erase method. That's military thinking for you... --R. Pelletier Sys Admin, House Galiagante We are a Micro$oft-free site To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message