"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> Here's an interesting thing. Our new backup procedure document says that 
> old tapes will be degaussed before being thrown away.
>
> What's the best price you can find for a tape degauss machine? All the 
> devices I can find are priced at several thousand dollars. o_O

Depends how erased you want the media.  If the magnetic field isn't strong 
enough, you can still recover data from it, even after it's supposedly been 
erased.  I saw a paper once where the government did a test to see just what 
it took to *totally* wipe a HD, and the magnetic field needed to do so was 
so strong that it physically warped the platters.

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Tim Cook
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