>> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:25:10 -0500, Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> said:

> Applicable state and federal laws largely determine the disposability
> of media, as previously explored in threads such as
> http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l AT vm.marist DOT edu/msg74957.html

> If media is kept in a secured facility, then the issue is moot, as no
> unauthorized persons will gain access to the media.  Under such
> circumstances there is no issue as to rewriting or data
> recoverability at any point.


My apologies for the imprecision.  The exposure threat against which
this measure is contemplated is that of legal discovery.

It is thought that, once the tape is reclaimed and comes out of
pending state, if it is re-used for some host which writes relatively
slowly, then data beyond the new end-of-tape marker might be subject
to discovery.

I am hoping to discourage this interpretation, emphatically.


- Allen S. Rout