On 2/26/06, Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hard drive platters aren't "rusty" at all; they typically have a >> mirror finish. Perhaps that was a reference to the magnetic coatings > > Yes it was , hence the "quotes" "around" "the" "rust"
Well, if you knew what the right term was, why didn't you use it? :-) > C'mon Ben, Do you really think the NSA is going to tell us if they shred > their drives? Then they wouldn't be able to smoke out parties trying > recover int. from the used hard drives sold by the gov't anymore... :-) I gather you're being facetious, but: You seem to be operating under the assumption that there is a "they". The "they" is "us". As it happens, I've had a couple of jobs where the sanitization of classified data storage was a concern of mine. The government security people are just that -- people, just like you and me. "They" have a job, and manuals, and things they like, and things they disagree with, and all that. You don't get a decoder ring or a secret handshake when you work with the NSA, just a lot more paperwork. :-/ But when it came to sanitization (rendering information unrecoverable by any known means), "they" were quite clear about what was required. I suppose it's possible there's some super-secret level of classification that's so secret "they" don't even tell "us" about it, but hey, maybe I know about that too and just aren't telling "you" about it. ;-) -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
