Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
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#3Since when does bbc run ads pretending to be articles?
This is an ad for cdi.
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#4Defense in depth is the reason.
Re: Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
#5Defense in depth is the reason.
Okay, but a single pass of /dev/zero will destroy all the data beyond hope of recovery.
Re: Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
#6Since when does bbc run ads pretending to be articles? This is an ad for cdi.
As this is not a 1:1 press release, it seems not much different then them reporting on other tech news ("apple vision pro site:bbc.co.uk").
Re: Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
#7Surprised it doesn't mention compliance frameworks as a culprit. NIST 800-88 calls for destruction if the data is highly sensitive and the drive is leaving the organization. Wrt risk management, it's not worth deviating from NIST.
https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=91793...
Re: Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
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#9Now why don't these companies keep the drives in-house instead of destroying? That, I don't know.
But aside that, regarding the encryption... If you used the drive without encryption at any time, then its possible to recover the unencrypted data. You'd need to guarantee that your drives were *always* used with encryption from the start to end. And that's a hard guarantee.
So yeah, if they were leaving the org, I'd destroy them too.
Re: Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
#10Defense in depth is the reason.
Okay, but a single pass of /dev/zero will destroy all the data beyond hope of recovery.
But you can't see from the outside if the drive was wiped. How can I be sure that I do not mix up the to-be-wiped and the wiped drives with 99.999% accuracy? That I did not unplug the drive before the whipping was finished? It's much easier with physical destruction.