What's worse is that while physical destruction is "good enough" for those departments that need it, they then have the problem of "how do we know it was really destroyed?"
This leads to warehousing of old drives, which is starting to add up. Paranoia has more costs than we can imagine... On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 15:04, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Most likely a single pass with DBAN or a similar utility is all that's >> needed to make disks secure. > > It gets better. The only agencies who ever really cared about more > than a single pass of zeros were government/defense/ types, for > classified national security information, and many of those > organizations aren't accepting software-based sanitization methods > anymore. Physical destruction only. (The fact that some software > makes reference to an obsolete DoD 5220.22-M from 1995 doesn't mean > it's acceptable by today's government standards.) > > So multi-pass overwrite is overkill for most, and insufficient for > the rest. :) > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
