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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field.
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- verb Present participle of
degauss .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field
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Examples
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They let him check the files himself and prove that there was no such Pfc. The "degaussing" effect?
More Than Human Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 1953
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Under a 2001 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence memorandum, there are only three acceptable ways to sanitize equipment hard drives: overwriting with software to release for reuse, demagnetizing or "degaussing" to render data unreadable, or physically destroying the equipment by force after overwriting or degaussing.
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Under a 2001 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence memorandum, there are only three acceptable ways to sanitize equipment hard drives: overwriting with software to release for reuse, demagnetizing or "degaussing" to render data unreadable, or physically destroying the equipment by force after overwriting or degaussing.
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Under a 2001 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence memorandum, there are only three acceptable ways to sanitize equipment hard drives: overwriting with software to release for reuse, demagnetizing or "degaussing" to render data unreadable, or physically destroying the equipment by force after overwriting or degaussing.
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Under a 2001 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence memorandum, there are only three acceptable ways to sanitize equipment hard drives: overwriting with software to release for reuse, demagnetizing or "degaussing" to render data unreadable, or physically destroying the equipment by force after overwriting or degaussing.
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Under a 2001 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence memorandum, there are only three acceptable ways to sanitize equipment hard drives: overwriting with software to release for reuse, demagnetizing or "degaussing" to render data unreadable, or physically destroying the equipment by force after overwriting or degaussing.
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Under a 2001 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence memorandum, there are only three acceptable ways to sanitize equipment hard drives: overwriting with software to release for reuse, demagnetizing or "degaussing" to render data unreadable, or physically destroying the equipment by force after overwriting or degaussing.
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Under a 2001 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence memorandum, there are only three acceptable ways to sanitize equipment hard drives: overwriting with software to release for reuse, demagnetizing or "degaussing" to render data unreadable, or physically destroying the equipment by force after overwriting or degaussing.
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"I'll send them an explanation of how to build a degaussing shield to protect their bodies."
I, TOO, DREAM.... 2010
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As the chemistry of drive platters reaching 1Tb require up to 15,000 Oerstead of Magnetic energy to accomplish coercion, present degaussing technology, originally designed for tapes and low density magnetic media, will not be able to effectively destroy hard drive data.
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