Want to make sure that the old discs you are discarding are unusable? Maybe you need one of these.
Storage specialist Plextor has announced an external optical drive designed to delete all the data stored on a recordable or rewriteable DVD or CD – permanently. It does it quickly, too – single layer CD-R/RW and DVD±R/RW media take just three minutes to wipe, the company claimed.
Dubbed the PlexEraser PX-OE100E, the product’s pitched at security conscious corporates who want to ensure that binned optical media don’t contain confidential information that could be retrieved later on. Plextor’s system zaps the organic dye layer, destroying any data the disc may contain and preventing any new information being written to it.
It is highly advised that all computer security technicians prepare themselves for the inevitable moment when Mabel in Accounting calls to ask why all of the critical backups she just “recorded” are unreadable.
Source: The Register
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