the wharf rat wrote:
In article mailman.3.1208491715.19599.comp.arch.storage_back ,
You mentioned that it is a felony to erase a hard disk wrong. Can you
explain further? Where did you get this information from?


Mishandling of classified information is a federal crime.

Unless things have changed, if you have never had a security clearance,
this is far less true than you'd think. Anyone with a current or past
security clearance signs a contract to protect all classified material
no matter what the occasion of encounter. Folks who have never done
this do not have the same contracted standard of behavior.


....and for any given class of data, there are standards for proper
disposal of that data where for some there is no acceptable software
method. Easily available pretty much the same place you got access to
that data in the first place.