19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
12:28 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Chris wrote:
The thing I and the guy who told me about it were
laughing at is how
useless their "destruction" methods really were.
They are using an off the shelf secure delete program (Norton?) and then
opening the top of the HD and hitting it with a mallet to damage the
platters.
So what does this mean... well, I am sure one of those data recovery
companies could still extract the info from the drive if someone was
willing to pay the fee (which I would assume a rival company that really
wanted the info, and was willing to bribe the trash hauler would be able
to afford).
IBM takes it's HDD's classified trade secret, "there's two other levels:
IBM confidential, and IBM internal use only for which they don't go to
these extremes) and dumps them through a crusher, then incinerates them.
Peace... Sridhar