Need program pointers

Paul Ste. Marie pstemari at fsp.fsp.com
Wed Nov 30 19:58:07 PST 1994


>   There is a commonly-held belief that there is a US government standard
>   for declassifying magnetic media which involves overwriting it three
>   times. In fact this method is for declassifying core (computer memory)
>   rather than magnetic media. The government standard for declassifying
>   magnetic media probably involves concentrated acid, furnaces, belt
>   sanders, or any combination of the above.

For magentic media, which includes core :), I believe the standard is
overwriting the info alternately with 0's and 1's 100x.

	Paul






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