State Agency to Destroy Unauthorized USB Drives

Lucas123 writes "The State of Washington's Division of Child support has forced hundreds of workers to turn in personal USB flash drives and has instead begun issuing corporate-style USB drives. The goal is to centrally monitor, configure and prevent unauthorized access to storage devices. So far about 150 common drives have been issued. The agency eventually plans to destroy all existing thumb drives collected as part of the security policy change."

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Anyone who mentions the discredited Gutmann paper in connection with data remanence is full of shit and does not know how computers work.

Hint: until recently, all memory devices relied upon magnetism. If it was true about data remanence, there would have been at least one device which exploited the phenomenon to increase storage density -- given the way prices of components have varied with respect to one another, there must have been a time when it would have been worthwhile to do so.