>Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:57:17 -0600
>From: "Chad A. Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Restoring disk data
>
>I have heard that in very sensitive situations, platters are removed and
>thrown into some sort of chipper, and floppies are shredded. I can't
>remember if this was a company or a government agency, However.
>
>Chad A. Fernandez
>Battle Creek, MI
Hi, Chad.
Perhaps you're thinking of the following:
Years ago, at the I.D.A. research facility, near Fort Meade MD,
the protocol was as follows:
"Hard-disks" (which at that time were very-large platters) were
removed, deep grooves were scraped into them with a screwdriver,
acid was poured over them, and then thrown into a machine.
"Floppy-disks" and "Tapes" had a huge ceramic magnet (about a 150
pound-pull) passed over them (as close to the flatest-surface
as possible) to degauss, and then, they were throwm into a machine.
"Files", ie, papers, were burnt, and then thrown into a machine.
The machine, which took-up almost an entire room, was un-officially,
(but very-descriptively), called a "duster".
Regards, Gregory.
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