Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:51:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Avalon Books <avalon@advicom.net> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure deletion Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905201448480.2841-100000@vespucci.advicom.net> In-Reply-To: <19990520065202.IDMD7869945.mta1-rme@wocker>
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> 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
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