On 31/05/17 21:23, John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/31/2017 12:46 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Not dealing with "secret", dealing with HIPAA and PII data. And*sigh* >> Homeland Security Theater dictates.... > > We run all used disks through a shredder before surplusing any systems, > and we are just a manufacturing company dealing with internal corporate > IT stuff. the shredder is a truck from a 'data destruction' service > that comes every so often and destroys the current inventory of surplus > disks. A corporate eSecurity officer witnesses this to ensure drives > aren't diverted into the grey market. each drive goes into the shredder > and comes out as metal filings. > Not relevant to this particular instance, but for domestic disks I keep them (along with old credit cards, memory sticks etc) until I have the garden incinerator going. With a good bright red firebed the disks don't last long - some run out of the bottom as liquid aluminium. I'm pretty certain even MI5/NSA won't get much off congealed Al!
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