On 2011-11-13 1:47, David Mann wrote:
But for the truly paranoid, maybe they just don't want you to know what they can really do with government-level resources. As far as I'm concerned, DBAN is easy enough if you know what you're doing and if you want more than that, physical destruction is the only alternative.
I don't know which is the case. I will say that IBM requires that retiring hard drives be "wiped" with an internal utility that claims to implement "military grade" wiping. At least some of them then get degaussed, too. I don't know what happens when they leave the facility.
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