> [much talk about destroying hard drives to prevent data recovery]
A friend used to work at the NSA. They had this interesting policy
that anything that went in that could possibly conceal information
could only come out as ashes. So if you wanted to take your new
Britney Spears CD in to work, and you still wanted to listen to it at
home, you'd better buy two copies because the one going in to the
office was never going to come out again. Likewise for the CD Player.
There are those "data destruction" mechanisms that involve writing
specific patterns on to the disk, then overwriting them with other
specific patterns, and again three or four times, and maybe they're
okay for "Secret" stuff. But for "Top Secret" and above, total
destruction is the name of the game.
-jan-
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Jan L. Peterson
Unemployed "Computer Facilitator"
http://www.peterson.ath.cx/~jlp/resume.html
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