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Re: Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It Tossed ComputerHard Drives
From: "Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:15:21 -0400
Why do you find it so hard to believe they physically destroyed hard drives? It makes perfect sense. At "the end of their lifecycle and retired" they are not likely useful for another task. In the last couple of years I've thrown out a couple of old, small drives, and before I toss them I take a hammer to them until they shake like a maracca. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 1:55 AM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: [funsec] Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It Tossed ComputerHard Drives -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via WTOP.com (AP). [snip] Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005. The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an e-mail recovery plan that the court proposed. "When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired ... the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction," the White House said in a sworn declaration filed with U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola. [snip] More: http://www.wtop.com/?nid=116&sid=1239912 It's completely amazing, the efforts to deter anyone from determining the true fate of these missing e-mails. Additional background: http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151873-1.html http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2186074,00.asp http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/the_pen_is_migh.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-11-white-house-email-pro be_ N.htm http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-desk/2007/3/29/separate-white-house-e-m ail - -accounts-draw-new.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFH5J8xq1pz9mNUZTMRAo92AKDY+jEM+4vy1O7SGcNzR/auYAy83QCgrJZG sWD14wsX4sB0jiASuHTNWIc= =gVax -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It Tossed Computer Hard Drives Paul Ferguson (Mar 21)
- Re: Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It Tossed ComputerHard Drives Larry Seltzer (Mar 22)
- R: Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It Tossed ComputerHard Drives Remo Cornali (Mar 22)
- Re: Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It TossedComputerHard Drives Larry Seltzer (Mar 22)
- Re: Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It TossedComputerHard Drives Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 22)
- R: Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It Tossed ComputerHard Drives Remo Cornali (Mar 22)
- Re: Abusrdity Theater: White House Says It Tossed ComputerHard Drives Larry Seltzer (Mar 22)