At 06:29 PM 5/23/01 -0500, ganns.com wrote:
>Surely this list has discussed destroying paper with sensitive writing on
>it. What is the conclusion as to the recommended method? Assume that the
>writing is with pencil, pen, typed, or printer output. Assume that owner of
>these secret documents does not have the budget to use an incinerator.
>
>I've seen cheap, at-a-moment's-notice methods such as, ripping a
>post-it-note with password into several pieces and discarding into various
>trash recepticals, or even flushing down toilets. I would rule out simple
>fireplace burning because it seem that you can even read some print on a
>newspaper, given that it has not been crushed to ash.
>
>Just curious. Thanks
There are mil specs on how to confetti paper, and various machines and
incinerators and transport bags have been approved for security use.
Domestically, an outdoor fireplace (with grating and lid) can destroy
garbage-bags worth of sensitive documents pretty well (esp. if they are
stapled or wirebound and otherwise not
easily shreddable) if you have time; I've helped an MD do that.
Tomlinson (_The Big Breach_) discusses the use of soluable (flushable)
paper and Pentel pens in secret writing. The adversary would have to have
a trap covertly installed
in the sewer to counter flushing.
Anyone ever swallowed a pencil message on paper and then try to read it
when it came out later? (Note to contributors: No need to share *all* the
details...)
