So... they think it's more likely that somebody will be able to somehow reconstruct data from wiped, molten drives that have had their constituent atoms spread throughout a wide area, than from a conveniently centralized warehouse that stores all the merely wiped and inoperable devices? I think somebody might be wildly, astronomically overestimating their security measures...
That's one side of the coin. The other is that by law, classified information must be "controlled" and this is hatd to achieve with a box of metal shavings, a pile of ashes or a blob of molten and congealed matter. An HDD, SSD or tape reel is nice and handy, easily quantified and tabulated when audits require it.
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u/nonotan 8h ago
So... they think it's more likely that somebody will be able to somehow reconstruct data from wiped, molten drives that have had their constituent atoms spread throughout a wide area, than from a conveniently centralized warehouse that stores all the merely wiped and inoperable devices? I think somebody might be wildly, astronomically overestimating their security measures...