Small arms fire - hmmmmm!
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Len Hammond <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting article. They are pretty specific about destruction methods. > > I agree with Erik, with the current price of drives, destruction IS secure, > cheap and can be done most anywhere with any of several methods. (large > hammers, drills, sand blaster, small arms fire, etc) Typically I pull the > drives apart and recycle the circuit boards, recycle the aluminum, keep the > magnets and stack up the platters. Critical platters I hammer a bit. I have > a large stack of platters and putting the right platters back to gether to > try to recover the data would be very difficult and probably not worth the > effort. Additionally most of the 'retired' drives are of small enough size > to make them not practical to reuse anywhere and most organizations that > take donated stuff have minimum standards and don't want them either. So for > my clients that I 'dispose' of drives for that require security, I can > guarantee that the data will not get out by the destruction method and I get > to keep <grin> the magnets. Small minds are easily amused ;-P > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not sure if you intend to reuse, donate, or sell the old hard drives, but >> with current low price of drives, it would probably be easier and more >> definitely secure to send the drives through a shredder. >> >> >> Secure erase *used* to be good enough for PCI compliance if DOD standards >> were used, can I ask where you got the info that degaussing is now >> required >> ? >> >> >> >> Erik Goldoff >> IT Consultant >> Systems, Networks, & Security >> >> -- >> Len Hammond >> CSI:Hartland >> [email protected] >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
