From: dmandl@lehman.com (David Mandl)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 93 11:23:38 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: POISON PILL
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> From: jet@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.