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Friedland uses the same machine to shred hard drives as it does to shred
paper. 

         Eric Weston

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:25 -0500, David McFarlane wrote:
> Don,
> 
> >I happen to know the answer for hard drives. Drives that the staff at
> >Surplus can't securely wipe - for whatever reason - go to a company that
> >shreds them.
> 
> Just to satisfy my curiosity...  What exactly, in concrete terms, 
> does "shred" mean here?  I have had trouble with that in the past, 
> since that term has both figurative and literal senses.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- dkm
> 
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