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To: TEDennis who wrote (12949)	11/22/1997 9:41:00 AM
From: Deep Digm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18263

Hi TED, Thanks for your response. Always appreciated. IMO, the benefit of a "portable factory" is its' "disposability". About 8 months ago a good friend of mine, who also happens to be a world class engineer, sent me this explanation of what happens to certain classified material that comes into contact with computers. I posted it at the time, but here it is again; >>"ÿ Any recordable media that has any electronic contact with information that falls into a 'compartmented' classification is handled exactly that way. D.O.D., U.S. Treasury and a dozen other agencies have areas which are so classified. ÿ For floppies, you don't even need to read it on a classified computer. If it's been in the drive, it goes to the shredder. ÿ There are ways to separate out unclassified information to get it out of a compartmented environment, but it's very complicated, and usually takes a lot of time, and several cleared people. ÿ Hard drives are impossible. They have to be physically destroyed. Hard drives that have never even had power applied to them, if they've been in a computer that could possibly ever have seen classified data, they're history."<< Put aside for a moment the question of validity of their product, they're selling an automated/semi-automated solution which involves electronics. If a production line can be added in a week or two for about $500K, a portable version should be a fraction of that, say $150K tops. To certain Federal agencies and paranoid CEO's it's a cheap price to guarantee the security of their data. I'm not looking to provoke an argument (with others) as to whether the product is real or not; I had a great time last night and I'm still feeling warm and cuddly :)) I'm just commenting on whether the "concept" might make sense. Have a good one. Deep.