Thanks for the link Mark,
Katy
Katy Thomas
Records Manager
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
> Caroline
>
> I looked into this a while ago for CITB, the best reference I found at
> the time was the British Security Industry Association Information
> Destruction Code of Practice which is available for download from the
> website.
>
> http://www.bsia.co.uk/download.html
>
> The code of practice for their accredited members specificies the
> appropriate means of destruction (usually shred or disintegrate) for
> modern media such as ID cards, CDs, hard disks etc. and perhaps is a
> good starting point but it is unlikely anyone has this resource
> in-house, so we use a BSIA member to do it for us.
>
> But I should imagine snapping disks as long as you don't cut yourself
> pretty much renders the media unusable excepting specialist forensic
> data recovery.
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
>>>> Caroline Sampson <[log in to unmask]> 23/09/05
> 10:04:22 >>>
> Dear all
>
> Is there an accepted way of ensuring confidential disposal of modern
> media
> such as back-up tapes, floppy disks and CD-ROMs? We can obviously
> destroy
> them as best we can by snapping disks in half, mangling the magnetic
> tape,
> etc., but would be interested to hear if there is a universally adopted
>
> approach.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Caroline Sampson
> Warwickshire County Record Office
>
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