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Later, I occasionally carried a copy of Bruce Schneier's 'Applied Cryptography' book containing source examples in the text (which did not fall under the export restrictions) and the disk containing the very same source, which was bound into the cover (and very definitely did fall under those restrictions). I wore the PGP-in-perl T-shirt out of and back into the USA on maybe a dozen flights from '91 to '93 without anybody even blinking at me funny. Secure recycling service have taken a lot of fun out of equipment decommissioning. Shortly afterwards we purchased our first secure shredder which could eat a hard disk or cartridge in a few seconds. As I was managing a County Council IT team I actually had an agreement with the waste site manager that our secure waste (tapes, old HDDs etc would be buried at the bottom of a new cell. I did have the landfill cell location and would have happily provided a shovel for Microsoft's software licencing team.

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I literally had to organise a skip for large PC deployments so we could get the install media securely stored (transported to landfill and buried). For those old farts like me you can probably remember being told by the Microsoft licencing team that you had to keep the install sets for every copy of DOS and Windows installed. Ironically because they couldn't produce the install files on a cartridge which would fit into a slot on any of our (new then) unix servers. I've also had similar issues with vendors who needed to send install media for software which had already been installed remotely.

It may not be a legal requirement but if its an organisational requirement its often simpler to provide a tape cartridge full of hex dumps to give the Accounts payable team something physical to raise a goods receipt note against even if all the delivery was virtual.

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