You read my mind. The link is slashdotted so I couldn't check the details, but if he removed the platters from a DoD secure area without the blessing of their IA guy, then he should loose his job, and potentially has criminal liability.
The article is taking about performing a DoD compliant data destruction on this disks, rather than he has taken DoD disks and 'reused' them.
Good data destruction techniques are something that any company which values is IP or customer data will perform on a disk prior to disposal. Data desposed of in this manner cannot, in theory, be recovered.
Exactly. Taking the platters out of the drive doesn't alter the data on them at all. So, he's done less to protect that (worthless) data by turning it into a tree.
And DoD "erasure" is basically "destroyed with thermite"; any drive that has ever held classified data is physically destroyed, not erased. I will never get over people's blind stupidity over "data security"... zeroing the drive is more than enough to erase your data from all but about 10 people on Earth. Trust me on this one: Your. Data. Isn'
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What are the plans after the tree is dismanteled (Score:5, Insightful)
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Only if you have root access.
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And the error message also reads: "An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists."
They're in for a surprise when opening their inbox tomorrow.
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Redundancy, redundancy, how you protect your d444-t3rz!
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I guess you would at least have access to some logs ...
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Sorry, running low on caffeine...going back to my cave now.
You mean your lair, right?
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We'll need a solution to the traveling reindeer problem to figure that out.
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And having it all in a tree makes it easier to search, too!
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deltree /y
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dismantle, dismantled
I suggest that you can dismantle your cards instead.
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Yeah, and who the hell hired that Bob Cratchit anyway...? Always bitching about overtime...bah...
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The article is taking about performing a DoD compliant data destruction on this disks, rather than he has taken DoD disks and 'reused' them.
Good data destruction techniques are something that any company which values is IP or customer data will perform on a disk prior to disposal. Data desposed of in this manner cannot, in theory, be recovered.
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How did we go from DOD erasure to removing the platters to make a tree? The data could still be recovered in its current tree state!
Only if you traverse the tree.
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Exactly. Taking the platters out of the drive doesn't alter the data on them at all. So, he's done less to protect that (worthless) data by turning it into a tree.
And DoD "erasure" is basically "destroyed with thermite"; any drive that has ever held classified data is physically destroyed, not erased. I will never get over people's blind stupidity over "data security"... zeroing the drive is more than enough to erase your data from all but about 10 people on Earth. Trust me on this one: Your. Data. Isn'