From: jet@netcom.com (J. Eric Townsend)

The US Gov policy for the disposal of any media that has been used to store classified data is:

wipe -- demagnatize with a *massive* demag unit grind -- toss in a thing that'd make ground chuck out of godzilla incenerate -- at some amazingly high temperature.

-eric

At last! I've always wondered that the mysterious "certain government conventions for wiping files" in the Norton Utilities Wipe Disk program referred to. Glad I never selected that option. --Dave.