In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 02/08/2008
   at 10:49 AM, "Van Dalsen, Herbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>On this note... We have about 5000 Double-(blue) and 3000 triple
>density(green)  Carts, due to the sensitivity of the data on them,
>company policy prohibits us from transporting them to the mother ship who
>is in the process to devouring us, even though they are encrypted,

If the auditors will sign off on it, use data security erase; you can then
sell the cartridges.

If you degauss modern media then you will no longer be able to
reinitialize them, but it's faster and more secure than DSE.

If you're really paranoid, there's always shredding and burning.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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