Imagine with me that you have the job of erasing in a straight line drawn with a pencil but I drew the line all over the place. When storing data, sometimes those big write heads would act like your children and go ‘off track’ and write outside the lines (I was never patient enough to stay inside the lines either, I mean the quicker I was done the quicker Mr. These hard drives were BIG and they had big platters and big read/write heads (big in physical size). These hard drives were not like what you have in your laptop or computer today, not even close. To me, that means it is an education issue, so here is my attempt at educating…. I bet right now you are saying to yourself, “Self….John is not talking to the right people, he needs to talk to the security folks or the IT folks or the CIO.” Great observation but typically it is the IT folks or C level executive that I am having this conversation with. I know technology changes almost daily and on the security side we are always playing catchup but 20 years! (read that in your disgusted voice) I ask those companies that still use these old standard guidelines (yes OLD, the original DOD 3 Pass recommendation was listed in the NISPOM circa 1995… that’s 20 years ago), “Do you have any technology that you still use today from 20 years ago?!” The response is always the same, “It’s what we have always done” or “It’s what is in our rules for data destruction”. No, I am talking about the infamous ‘DOD 3 Pass’ that I still see companies advertising today when selling their data wiping products and I hear and see every day from companies destroying their data. First let me say after more than 30 years of working for or around the Department of Defense, I can assure you the DOD 3 Pass is not some high tech secret memory wiping device (although that would be a cool tool to use on my wife when I make her mad!).
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