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How much wiping do you do? :)
From: gbugbear at gmail.com (Tim Mugherini)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:35:35 -0400
So out of curiosity, Degaus of tape media - will that render the tape useless also? On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Chris Merkel <cmerkel at gmail.com> wrote:
In my world, disks with sensitive data are either zapped in a degausser or dropped into a shredder. The customer doesn't allow overwriting of any kind. Unclass drives are just overwritten since there's really nothing on them that is worth the national lab type of attack necessary to get any residual bits off them.Just for the sake of everyone on-list, it may be worth noting two things about degaussing: 1. A strong magnet or a bulk tape eraser won't cut it for hard drives. You're using a special-purpose degausser, probably a Garner model? 2. Degaussing also erases the control track information, which means that you can't reuse the drive. It's like shredding without the sharp edges. - Chris Merkel _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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