Secret Mac

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Apr 19 12:54:35 2002

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> > Here's how a defense contractor cleaned a tempest system's hard drive of
> > secret SAR (not confidential) data after each use:
> > 1.) Run Norton WipeDisk pgm writing 1s & 0s three times.
> > 2.) Low level format
> > 3.) WipeDisk three more times.
> > Trust me, when I was done, there wasn't anything recoverable there.
>
> Wanna bet?
>
> With sufficient (excessive) effort and expense (>G*value of data), some
> can still be recovered. The NSA does a lot of that kind of stuff.

Shred the disks. Take the even numbered and odd numbered shreds and burn
them in separate incinerators, and bury the ash in two different
landfills.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 12:54:35 BST