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Where Old Hard Disks (with Digital Secrets) Go To Die

Posted by timothy on from the relax-we-used-to-work-at-cold-stone-creamery dept.

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Justin George writes at McClatchy that in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse, where visitors are required to trade in a driver's license for a visitor's badge, some of the nation's secrets are torn apart, reduced to sand or demagnetized until they are forever silent. Need to destroy a rugged Toughbook laptop that might have been used in war? E-End will use a high-powered magnetic process known as degaussing to erase its hard drive of any memory. A computer monitor that might have some top-secret images left on it? Crushed and ground into recyclable glass. Laser sights for weapons? Torn into tiny shards of metal. "We make things go away," says Arleen Chafitz, owner and CEO of e-End Secure Data Sanitization and Electronics Recycling, a company with sixteen employees that destroys hard drives, computers, monitors, phones and other sensitive equipment that governments and corporations don't want in the wrong hands. Chafitz say the information technology departments at typical companies might not have the proper tools or training to adequately dispose of data. IT departments focus on fixing and restoring data, they say, while data-wiping companies focus on just the opposite."

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  1. The Slashdot Beta needs to die. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't believe that this Slashdot Beta nonsense is still going on.

    I think it has been about a month now since they started forcing it upon us unwilling victims. The response to it has been unanimous hatred. In one story after another I see numerous frustrated people expressing their complete dislike for the beta site.

    Why can't those running Slashdot understand that EVERYBODY HATES THE SLASHDOT BETA SITE?

    It is inferior to the existing site in every single way. There is a ton of wasted empty space. The font sizing and spacing is really fucked up. The lack of contrast between the text and background colors makes reading the content difficult. The story images are too large, pointless and wasteful. The story comment layout is difficult to read. It's far harder to post.

    Some software projects do fail. The Slashdot Beta is one of them. Such failure is just a part of the game. When it happens, the sensible thing to do is to cut one's losses, cancel the failing project, throw away the code, and learn not do make the same mistakes ever again.

      If this terrible beta site eventually goes live, it surely will drive away the few remaining users of value here. It'll be Digg v4 all over again.

    PLEASE, SLASHDOT, PUT AN END TO THIS HORRIFIC BETA SITE PROJECT! IT IS A FAILURE THAT CANNOT BE SALVAGED!