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Governmental Servers Wiped? Never!

Posted by timothy on from the but-this-is-in-australia dept.

Geoff writes with a story from Australia: "Eighteen AIX servers purchased from government via auction -- none of them had data removed from them. Ticket Vending and Validation source code, Payroll, Finance, Emails and Customer complaints. All there on every server; they were even nice enough to include some old backup tapes. At ~$14USD per server, it's amazing how cheap personal information has become."

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  1. you know they could have just.... by thegoogler · · Score: 5, Informative
    used dban, its not rocket science. just put the disk in and hit ok

    o wait, this is the goverment, nevermind

  2. Re:Data Eradication / the Nuclear Option by Kahless2k · · Score: 3, Informative

    I work in a hospital; and we have come up with a very effective way of dealing with hard drives...


    • Step 1: Low-Level Format
    • Step 2: Beat drive to bloody pulp
    • Step 3: Put said drive into the CT Scanner or MRI

    This leaves us with a blank, smashed and scrambled drive. At this point, depending on the type of data stored, the remains of the drive head off to the incinerator...

    This may sound like going overboard, but we're dealing with patient information, and we take it very seriously.

  3. Re:Understandable . . . by sconeu · · Score: 3, Informative


    The spec for declassification is DOD-5220.22M

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    General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.