On Jan 20 at 15:10, Matthew Seaman confidently asserted: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:59:13PM +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > >> I always thought that formatting/fdisk'ing twice completely erased >> *permanently* whatever had been on the disc. You make an interesting >> case that previously I never thought about in any detail. ><snippo> > If your drive contains or once contained military secrets, then in the > USA and probably anywhere in the West, standard disposal procedure is > that the drive be completely overwritten with specific patterns of > random data several times, and then taken to a secure facility where > the whole thing is literally stamped flat and chewed into small lumps > of scrap.
Goodness me, nothing like being completely certain eh? This gives "MilSpec" a whole new (expensive, yet exciting) meaning. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Fri Jan 21 01:01:00 CET 2005 1:01AM up 13:51, 3 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
