I'm pretty sure I recall hearing the NSA never lets anything leave their facilities intact when decomissioning or otherwise disposing. I've heard a story of bra

I'm pretty sure I recall hearing the NSA never lets anything leave their facilities intact when decomissioning or otherwise disposing. I've heard a story of brand new very expensive servers (big Sun machines I think) sitting in a loading dock, still on pallettes, having the project cancelled and having them destroyed unused rather than risk data leaving the building.