POISON PILL

[David Mandl]

> From: jet at 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.