Actually, you'd be surprised what is recoverable in the aftermath of an explosion. Bombs truly are no guarantee of unrecoverability of data, at least not simple things like dynamite and pipe bombs. Furthermore, pipe bombs throw shrapnel, and as such are anti-personnel devices. The goal was to destroy data, not FBI agents. Booby traps that take lives are considered in court as 1st degree murder. There are more elegant approaches. Doug
Doug Merritt writes:
Actually, you'd be surprised what is recoverable in the aftermath of an explosion. Bombs truly are no guarantee of unrecoverability of data, at least not simple things like dynamite and pipe bombs.
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. The media is treated as if it had classified data until after step #3. -eric
This thread stopped having anything to do with cryptography a long time ago. Please take it somewhere else. Marc
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