Richard Hild manages destruction. No joke: His job title is “destruction manager.” He works for an Ogdensburg, N.J., company called Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling Inc. (www.backthruthefuture.com), that shreds hard drives, magnetic tape, compact discs, and anything else that holds digital data. Recently I spent a day with five doomed hard drives and a batch of condemned CDs on their way to meet Hild.
The materials were from Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer (www.lskdnylaw.com), a midsize litigation firm in New York. Though the firm’s reception area boasts two-story windows looking out on New York Harbor, my journey began in the windowless whir of the firm’s computer room. The hard drives and CDs had already been zapped with an electromagnetic tool to erase the data. But that’s not enough, said Michael Chung, the firm’s director of information technology. “Self-destruction is never guaranteed,” he deadpanned.
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