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.

Jeffrey.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Dana Smith <akadanak@gmail.com> wrote:

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.

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