NODE 474505a5Re: POISON PILL
doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)Thu, 30 Sep 93 18:57:08 PDT
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.
Furthermore, pipe bombs throw shrapnel, and as such are anti-personnel
devices. The goal was to destroy data, not FBI agents. Booby traps that
take lives are considered in court as 1st degree murder.
There are more elegant approaches.
Doug
NODE d6bdfa9eRe: POISON PILL
jet@netcom.com (J. Eric Townsend)Fri, 1 Oct 93 10:43:38 PDT
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
NODE e898e24eRe: POISON PILL
Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>Fri, 1 Oct 93 11:08:10 PDT
This thread stopped having anything to do with cryptography a long
time ago. Please take it somewhere else.
Marc