From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@access.digex.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 94 20:03:45 PST
To: "Paul Ste. Marie" <pstemari@fsp.fsp.com>
Subject: Re: Need program pointers
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On Wed, 30 Nov 1994, Paul Ste. Marie wrote:

> >   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
> 

Close contact with a thermite gernade is the standard most agencies I 
know of follow.


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