Scrapping hardware to get it off the books (RE: Is it a Lisa or Mac XL?!)

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Nov 30 00:23:11 2001

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:

> > I doubt it. There may be very few contracts that require this sort of
> > thing, but honestly, if the company scrapping the equipment was that worried
> > about it, they'd scrap it themselves. I have heard that NSA does this, and
> > that further they (to paraphrase) "slag their disks and post armed guards
> > around the slag."
>
> it's true; a friend has a CDC 1700, formerly NSA property...
> and nothing that could hold software was part of the deal
> (although I think he got to keep the core).
>
> -dq
>

I picked up a little Miniscribe 3.5" HD at a swap meet a few years ago
that carried a sticker stating that it had been rendered clean by NSA.
They must really have a stout degausser for that job. This one was so
`neutralized' that even the drive motor would not spin up.

                                                 - don
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