The Naval Surface Warfare Center at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico has—literally—tons of IT hardware and equipment used for classified programs that need to be destroyed by the most secure and irreversible means.
While White Sands Missile Range is an Army facility, NAVSEA researchers have a detachment there working on "land-based weapons system testing, directed energy weapons testing"—lasers—"and research rocket launch support," according to their webpage. Those researchers have on hand some 4,000 pounds of IT equipment, including magnetic, optical and solid-state storage devices with highly sensitive, classified data.
The center issued a solicitation for destruction services that specifically calls for all designated equipment to be burned "to ash."
The information stored on these devices is highly sensitive, as evidenced by the physical security requirements set forth in the solicitation. The incineration facility must have "at the minimum, secure entry, 24-hour armed guards and 24/7 camera surveillance with recordable date and time capabilities."
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/02/navy-needs-2-tons-storage-devices-burned-ash/154629/
(Score: 1) by fennec on Tuesday February 12 2019, @02:30PM (1 child)
Or use them for target practice ...
But that would probably be too cost effective.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 12 2019, @02:40PM
Probably, yeah. I expect someone has a brother-in-law already lined up ready to build a destruction facility that will cost a fortune and charge six fortunes per year to handle it. Simply blowing them up wouldn't make anyone any money.
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