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. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz