RE: secure disposal of backup tapes

From: Glenn English (ghe_at_slsware.com)
Date: 11/23/05

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:24:26 -0700

    On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:30 +1300, Steven Jones wrote:

    > From: Murad Talukdar [mailto:talukdar_m@subway.com]
    > Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2005 1:38 p.m.
    > To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: secure disposal of backup tapes
    >
    > Hi I wanted to get some ideas from everyone for secure disposal of
    > DDS/TRAVAN/DLT backup tapes.
    > How do you burn yours?

    > On-site crusher, a lorry turns up with an inbuilt crusher/shreader, we
    > witness important stuff crushed/shreaded, then it goes and gets pulped
    > or incinerated.

    This all sounds like such a waste. Used properly, a bulk eraser will
    move those magnetic domains around enough that nobody will see anything
    on the tape. Then they could be donated to starving newbies.

    If the tapes *must* be destroyed, how about just melting them? That'd be
    a lot less offensive to the universe than burning them... 

    -- 
Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com
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