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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re:  Sanitizing SCSI disks
From:       nabadm () odo ! acdnj ! itt ! com (set chaos/total)
Date:       1995-07-30 8:26:23
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> 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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