Our IT Manager looked into this after the CBS story and then told department
managers to budget at the end of copier lease cycles to purchase the hard
drives for removal/destruction (about $200 each for most of the machines we
are currently using).  

As for making old hard drives unreadable, my predecessor preferred using
them for target practice.  I'm not sure if this is a method recommended by
LVA (officially or un).  

Rosanna Bencoach
General Registrar, New Kent


-----Original Message-----
From: Breeden, John B. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: Just making an observation

Bob,
I had not even been aware that copiers had this feature until a CBS news
story several weeks ago.  Certainly degaussing or the use of other
methods that obliterate the information is warranted prior to the
surplus of copiers used to copy or scan confidential information.
John   

-----Original Message-----
From: Virginia Records Officer's Listserv
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lyons, Robert (VDH)
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:31 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Just making an observation

John

Following this line of thinking, what are your thoughts on copiers with
hard drives having copies of potentially sensitive material?

Bob Lyons - VDH - Charlottesville
 

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