POISON PILL

[J. Eric Townsend]

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