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| IRS seeks help destroying another 3,200 hard drives |
| 2014-07-23 |
| Gotta make sure that any e-mails to the "myrmidons" have been, er, "archived" with extreme prejudice. |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #5 A smart (and less arrogant) group would have upgraded the computers (and harddrives) long before they let slip that they were targetting. Then waste a few months 'tracking down' the old computers only to announce the harddrives were wiped and the computers donated to schools. Force your opposition to take them back from the schools if they want to go over them. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-07-23 14:44 |
| #4 When the company I work for has a hard drive destroyed it is physically shreadded (by a company which does that sort of thing) into sawdust-sized pieces. Optionally they will send you a video. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-07-23 13:07 |
| #3 Standards require a magnetic wipe and then physical hard drive destruction, either by punching/drilling through the drive or outright destruction. Also recording of all drive serial numbers. I'd rather have them contract it out. We've already seen how 'competent' the IRS has been on this. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-07-23 12:53 |
| #2 Do they really need to contract this out? Seems like one summer intern with a ball peen hammer would blast through 3,200 hard drives and chuck them into a dumpster before lunch. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2014-07-23 11:10 |
| #1 Why not? They've long ago decided that the laws don't apply to them, the laws are for the peons. Back to your assigned tasks. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-07-23 10:50 |