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Old 02-23-2008, 02:28 PM
David H. Lipman
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Default Re: How many overwrites for secure erase?

From: "Unruh" <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>


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| The dod is a bureacracy. Although the recmmendation probably made sense
| once, once they had been promulgated they will never again change no matter
| how the technology changes. To relax them puts someone's ass on the line.
| What if he aralaxes them and suddenly some data leaks. Thus they are frozen
| in time even if they make no sense whatsoever.
| I would not take their recommendation as indicating anything whtsoever
| about what the current best proctice is. While doing what they say may not
| harm except that the wipe taks 2 days rather than 20min.-- which means
| noone does it.
|

The standard has changed. What I posted was the NEW standard.

Don't say "..noone does it.". I see disk sanitization done all the time.

This isn't something for just Defense organizations. Sanitization should be done by *any*
company that has company proprietary information stored on their respective hard disks.

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Dave
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