Destroying a hard drive

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 11:46:39 EDT 2007


On 7/11/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>   I don't recall the name of the company, but there is a data
> destruction company which will pick up your hard drive and shred it in
> front of you in their truck.  :-)

  FWIW, that is not considered sufficient for media containing
classified information.  The NSA doesn't tell us why, but presumably
they have their reasons.  Of course, your enemies are likely less
motivated.  If it was my own personal data, I'd be quite happy with
that.

-- Ben


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