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Shredding seems the wrong tool if one wants to dispose classified documents Why not incinerating, dissolving in acid, grinding into a fine powder, or something
by nextaccountic 3y ago
Shredding seems the wrong tool if one wants to dispose classified documents
Why not incinerating, dissolving in acid, grinding into a fine powder, or something like that?
- fifteen1506 3y agoAlso questioned myself. My pet theory is big companies first shred and after send to be burned (or recycled). Plus a shredding machine us safer than a fire device.
- flir 3y agoCynically, if your insurance company says "4mm cross cut and a paper trail to prove it was done", then that's what you do. Why try harder? But yes, paper that's shredded by a specialist paper-shredding company is then typically baled up and sent for recycling.
- dools 3y agoI compost all of my sensitive information that arrives by mail. And whenever I need to dispose of something I can’t compost, like an old drivers license, I cut it into pieces and drip feed the pieces into the garbage over the course of a few months. Call me paranoid but I think there will be a cottage industry in sifting through garbage once this tech gets mature enough!
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoConsidering all of my confidential information has already been leaked by some tech entity or another, yeah a bit paranoid. Concentrated data is juicier than mining trash.
- KennyBlanken 3y agoYour trash bags are ripped open and co-mingled as they're sorted through by workers as it zips by on a conveyor belt. You're being very, very excessively paranoid doing anything more than just cutting it into a piece or two across the ID number.
- shwaj 3y agoLol! I do that with drivers licenses too. I laugh at myself as I do it.
- Scoundreller 3y agoUgh, I had to get a failed bank card replaced at a branch once and had to train the clerk to cut through the chip, not just the magstripe.
- justinclift 3y ago> I cut it into pieces and drip feed the pieces into the garbage over the course of a few months. That seems like both more effort, and potentially less effective, than just burning them?
- hammyhavoc 3y agoPutting it on paper in the first place is a big mistake because it probably isn't encrypted, it has probably been printed (printers are a bit scary in terms of security and privacy), there's cameras everywhere including in every pocket, and documents are easily duped, exfiltrated and observed, and you would likely have no easily-followed log of any of that. You also have to trust whoever does your disposal/recycling, and where there's people, there's dishonesty. Hence "zero trust" as a concept.
- bookofjoe 3y agoTo me "zero trust" = sadness. Can't/won't do it.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoInteresting! What about it makes you sad? I'm happier than ever because I don't need to worry anymore about if something is safe, because I know it is safe. Having sensitive data compromised would make me extremely sad.
- bookofjoe 3y agoConstant vigilance and suspicion erodes my soul.
- EA-3167 3y agoIn many cases incineration is the standard, using so-called burn bags.
- konfusinomicon 3y agoor just shredding into a tank of water and pressing it into pulp