Whose guidelines should you follow for the destruction of storage media such as thumb drives, Zip drives, and computers?

Depends how bad you want to hide something. If the drive has previously been encrypted and the password hashed (like AES-256 with SHA-512 hashing), then deleting the content is enough since it will be slightly overridden and thus unusable. If it is not encrypted already, delete it, and override all your disk space with something. If you want it to die as a secrete 100%, burn it and pulverize it. Otherwise, if you want a quick method, use some real delete software.

no. when the asker posts the question they can make a question worth what ever they think is a fair price. although it must be within the limit of the points they currently own. 5 is the minimum number of points a question can be worth. if a question is complicated or has lots of parts to it, it is better to make it worth more because more people will be more willing to answer.

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