On 31/05/17 21:23, John R Pierce wrote:
On 5/31/2017 12:46 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Not dealing with "secret", dealing with HIPAA and PII data. And*sigh* Homeland Security Theater dictates....
We run all used disks through a shredder before surplusing any systems, and we are just a manufacturing company dealing with internal corporate IT stuff. the shredder is a truck from a 'data destruction' service that comes every so often and destroys the current inventory of surplus disks. A corporate eSecurity officer witnesses this to ensure drives aren't diverted into the grey market. each drive goes into the shredder and comes out as metal filings.
Not relevant to this particular instance, but for domestic disks I keep them (along with old credit cards, memory sticks etc) until I have the garden incinerator going. With a good bright red firebed the disks don't last long - some run out of the bottom as liquid aluminium. I'm pretty certain even MI5/NSA won't get much off congealed Al!