Moe Trin wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article
> <YBZvj.234$R_5.180@trnddc08>, David H. Lipman wrote:
>
>> From: "Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld>
>
>> | and that's just Vancouver, BC. The yellow pages here in Phoenix list
>> | nine companies who will do data destruction and claim to have various
>> | certifications to do so. We use two of them.
>
>> Any DoD Contractor can have the NSA CMC destroy the disks and receive a
>> receipt indicating their destruction. :-)
>
> I'm not exactly sure how our DOD stuff is handled, as it's not my
> bailiwick. On the other hand, I'm guessing that about a quarter of the
> drives here go out for a certified scrub because we're a R&D facility
> and corporate is rather paranoid about some things. Heck, all of the
> waste paper trash is shredded, even if it came from the chief cook's
> office in the employee's cafeteria, just as all hard drives get a 3
> pass (zeros, ones, "random data") wipe when they are taken out of
> service. Something like 15 minutes per Gig - big deal, especially
> when you have several "dedicated" boxes to do the job.
>
> Old guy


DOD has a hard drive SHREDDER!

For you and I (assuming You're not a spy) a single overwite is
quite enough - to get stuff off it requires extreme measures.