I think it's a little different.  

The OP was asking how to do something presumably legal except if done in
response to pending litigation.

The news article suggests someone who was planning something quite
malicious presumably of harm to Fannie Mae itself rather than any
attempt to hide information from possible litigation.  If he is guilty I
hope he rots in jail and is never allowed to touch a system again.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable

You guys remember this post? (below)

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/090130/fannie_mae_virus.html?.v=5

What a mess!

-Jonathan 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of rvadde
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Making Expired Netbackup Tapes Unreadable


Greetings, 

I am pretty sure that a lot of you who are working for big enterprises
are aware of the legal holds and holding even the scratch tapes for the
legal purposes. I have a question related to this. There is a
possibility that legal might come back and ask to hold all tapes
including the scratch tapes because Netbackup has a mechanism to read
those tapes and import them. 

Is there a way we can make Netbackup tapes as unimportable easily with
out rewriting the whole tape?

Thanks

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