<div dir="ltr">My understanding is that for classified stuff they in fact do that. The drives are "wiped" then sent to a contractor that melts them down.<br><br>Jeffrey.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Dana Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akadanak@gmail.com">akadanak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I can't figure out why the government just doesn't remove the hard drives and send them to a shredder. Even a private individual can achieve roughly the same level of security with a drill and a 1/2" drill bit. With the price of drives being what they are now it can't impact very much the resale value of the computer to sell it without a drive installed.</div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine<br>
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