18 Feb
1999
18 Feb
'99
4:53 p.m.
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Joe wrote:
At 02:25 PM 2/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
Standard for who? US DOD requires they be dissolved in acid. Drilling
would certainly be safer, cheaper and faster but not totally secure.
Joe
I picked up an ST-157N at a swapmeet sometime back with a sticker on it
indicating that it had been degaussed in accordance with NSA standards.
It was rather thorough. They even degaussed the magnets in the spin
motor!
- don
Security
concerns?
Precisely. In fact I believe that this is standard drive decomissioning
procedure. I've seen entire pallets of drives mutilated in just that
fashion at Berman.