Use Norton Wipedisk. Overwrite three times... that'll clear the media enough
so that it can be deamed "unclassified." However, it *STILL* must remain in
the DOD inventory for two years being *USED* in an unclassified mode before
it can be released to the public. (The destruction certificate must also
remain with the computer for two years.)
This is approved up to and including TS.
If you're a civilian, (and don't have to follow those requirements) just
overwrite with Wipedisk three times. If what's on there makes you *THAT*
paranoid, use Wipedisk 99 times. :*)
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From: firewalls-owner
To: Firewalls
Subject: Re: Sanitizing SCSI disks
Date: Sunday, July 30, 1995 8:26AM
> I see many posts about destroying disks since there is no
> secure way to remove the classified data. If anyone is
> interested, my company has written a SCSI disk overwrite
> program which has been approved for use on data up to secret by
> the Navy, Air Force, DIS and DISA. The product is called
> UniShred Pro and works on Sun, HP, IBM and SGI workstations.
Is that approved under the ISM or the NISPOM? The NISPOM takes effect July
31st. NISPOM requirements are much more restrictive regarding disk
sanitization. Someone finally woke up and said, hey, if you can't overwrite
revectored bad blocks you can't sanitize the media, you have to destroy it.
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