[luau] FYI: DOD donated PC's

[Dan George]

Jeff
       We have seen a few before too at CompUSA from the FBI to track data
theft. They took Malcolm away from us because he was good at gathering data
and transaction logs on hdds after they have been erased. So the time it
takes to clean classified information off a drive is much longer than just
merely wiping a drive clean. Also I was at McCord AFB Tacoma 318th FIS. The
Dragons.
My CS was Danny the Devil.  I was only 13 then received a bad rap.

Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Zidek" <z-man at hawaii.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] FYI: DOD donated PC's


> Regarding the DOD clean drives.  It is true their are several programs
> out their that can clean unclassified hard disks so they can be give to
> schools. The main problem is time.  Using the program given to us by
> base communications it took almost 12 hours to clean one 10 gig drive to
> DOD standards.  Yes it runs on a floppy so a few machines can be hooked
> up at one time and let run over night.  You can see though how this is a
> pain and if the security custodian doesn't care about the donation it
> will be easier to do nothing with them or junk the drives.  Jeff Zidek
>
> On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 12:58, Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS wrote:
> > Here is a couple of things I have learned about getting the military to
> > donate computers for educational use.  Allot of the times a custodian
will
> > want to remove the hard drives before giving out machines.  I can't say
this
> > isn't the fastest and safest thing to do, but there are other ways.  If
the
> > drive has always been unclassified than the military has approved
software
> > that will write 0's to the drive "seven" times.  This is the DOD
standard if
> > you want to officially call a drive "clean".  According to Hickam's base
> > ADPE custodian, the drives can be given with the PC's once this is done.
If
> > you ask me, once you get someone at that level to say OK, record all the
> > serial numbers, fill out the paper work, get the right signatures, and
push
> > the machines out the door.  Unfortunately some people would rather yank
out
> > the drives, or let a machine sit in a store room before they go through
that
> > trouble.  Hickam doesn't seem to have that problem so we have lucked out
so
> > far.  This one custodian who is on the ball, will end up providing 30+
> > machines for us to place in various public and private schools in
Hawaii.  I
> > think that is pretty cool.  Of course im not going to brag on the Air
Force
> > to much, until the machines are signed for and off the base.  Maybe
> > tomorrow.  ^_^
> >
> > Cody Taylor
> > Northrop Grumman,Information Technology,
> > PACAF ETS
> > Hickam AFB, Honolulu, HI
> > 808-449-4102
> >
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