Destructive Influence

Destructive Influence
Scott Granneman, 2004-04-14

Everyone needs a good data destruction policy, and a lawyer standing by, to dispose of their sensitive media and devices.

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NSA v. Furby 2004-04-15
Anonymous (2 replies)

This story has been tossed around - as it is here - as "OMG NSA is afraid of Furby LOL!!11!". The Furby contains a mechanism for recording and replaying sound; no such devices are permitted inside sensitive Gov't/DoD facilities for [what should be] obvious reasons. The same restrictions apply to ...

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NSA v. Furby 2004-04-19
Anonymous

I think the point of bringing up the Furby story was not to highlight the story as such, but to make people realise that data could easily be on seemingly innocuous devices....

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Re: NSA v. Furby 2007-04-09
Anonymous

well the furby doll cannot replay sound...

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Peter Gutmann's paper 2004-04-15
Anonymous

No article on data destruction should omit Peter Gutmann's paper 'Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory', available here:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html..
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Destructive Influence 2004-04-17
Ligthert

I love your articles as always :-)

I wonder how far these pratices count for the european situation....

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