John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/31/2017 12:46 PM, m.roth at 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. > The alternative is to wait for my manager to return, and then have the drives deGaussed. Oh... and I just looked, ahh, yeah, I think something's going on... given that it's not 12 days, but that I started it on 11 May.... mark