NSA requires the use of a industrial shredder that can grind the components into pieces less than 2mm.

https://ameri-shred.com/portfolio-items/2mm-ssd-solid-state-drive-hammer-mills/

If you can’t do that, you should incinerate the drive at over 700 degrees.

As far as wiping goes, a 3 pass overwrite alternating 0s and 1s is good enough as long as it’s done over the entire drive, not just the partition.

BCWipe is good enough for this

'C’s get degrees.

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.

You can teach the job, you can’t teach personality.

If the world is going to shit, and you can’t or won’t do anything about it, why worry about it.

Did you use a guide to configure it all? I’d love to get started but networking has always been a weak spot for me

I actually have a multiple choice question on my General User training that goes something like:

If someone attempts to elicit classified information from you, and a heated argument erupts, what action should you take?

A) Inform Company Security of the event

B) Provide a non-answer and defer or distract from the current line of questioning

C) Prove them wrong by giving them the classified information

D) A & B

So far no one has chosen C, thankfully.

Me @27 IT is boring and the wages suck, I lack human empathy so I’ll try Defense Contracting

Me @36 Well the money is great, but the risk of Engineers spilling national security secrets every day is stressful AF.

A horseshoe crab is fucking gnarly, bro. You see this brown, almost crescent/spherical object with a pointy tail skuttling along innocuously at the bottom of the shallows, and moving at a decent pace. It’s so different from anything else you’d expect to see with the tides, and much larger too. Bigger than any crab, bigger than most fish that like to hang at that shallow depth. You might even mistake the two round black dimples in it’s carapace for eyes, and like the comical depiction find it…cute?

It looks fairly non threatening, and has a poor reaction time. So like any kid you pick it up by it’s tail, and then, “HOLY FUCK!” Nightmare fuel, as you look under it’s carapace at the many legs writhing underneath like some Cthulhu fever dream.

You put it back down in the water and continue to let it do it’s thing.

I’ve had that experience a couple times, but I’ve never witnessed these things breeding before. My Mom who was an Environmental Chemist for the EPA saw these things breeding once, and it’s like a giant migration for these crabs to the shallows and shore. We’re talking absolutely hundreds of them coming to fuck in some nasty orgy and peace back out to sea.

Certainly one of the weirdest, coolest and oldest creatures on Earth.

They can laugh at themselves. Not to the point of self deprecation, but they can acknowledge when they’re wrong or dumb

I use ESET NOD32. Such a reliable, low resource, and professional interface. Never had a problem