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D3 releases new product which easily destroys all data from discs

Digital Data Destruction (D3, Inc.) today announced that it will release its next generation electric powered CD DVD destruction device: DX-CD2 TM.



Identity theft, the recent passage of federal liability disposal requirement acts such as Grahm-Leach Bililey , HIPAA and the FACTA regulations, which require proper electronic disposal of personal information, and emerging "best safe practices" with business and governmental security issues require constant vigilance by business owners to protect their hard-earned trade secrets and protect clients' confidential data. The global firm of D3 has met the needs of those companies which cannot afford to leak confidential or classified information with the DX-CD2TM



The DX-CD2 exceeds those needs by scraping the data layer of a CD-R or CC-Rom disc, making the information totally unreadable.



The process produces a clear polycarbonate disc while residual ink and metals are collected in a dust bag. And although the polycarbonate disc can be discarded in a normal trash container, if returned, D3 separates the discarded materials and recycles them for a cleaner environment.



"The obvious question people should ask themselves is why should I have to destroy a CD-ROM disc." asks Roger Hutchison, D3, Inc. CEO and sister company CD-ROM Inc. founder and president. " The answer is that simple breaking of a disc or scratching it so it is 'not readable' by a CD-ROM or DVD drive does not destroy the data on the disc." It can be retrieved with technology which includes a microscope, a jig-saw-puzzle-like software program and the understanding of the data format structure of how data is read from a CD-ROM disc."



According to Hutchison, a CD-ROM disc -- the smallest capacity of all optical discs -- has the capacity to hold over 300,000 pages of content (with one page defined as a sheet of paper 8 1/2 inches wide by 11 inches high). A DVD has the capacity to hold 2 million pages. The new industry of digital data destruction was envisioned by Hutchison, who incorporated D3, Inc. after forming CD-ROM, Inc., the original company which made products for the Department of Defense to destroy all levels of classified data on CD-ROM media labeled "Secret,"Top Secret" and above top secret. (Officials at D3 have submitted DOD approval for DX-CD2 as well).



The United States is the largest consumer of digital information and dominates the world market place in storing the digital content of everything from patients' records, bank records and proprietary and confidential data. In 2004, 12 billion CD-ROM and DVD discs were manufactured worldwide.



Meanwhile, "digital voyeurism" makes it absolutely necessary, as well as a necessity in the legal framework, to destroy this data on a timely and regular basis. Mere disc breakage is not enough to meet strict government regulations nor even company standards any more. Company officials should take heed and do their most stringent comparison shopping in this matter of protecting people and corporations from unwanted digital voyeurism.



The company has been destroying data in mass quantities at its Iron River since it developed the DX-CDe, which is being replaced by the newest version, DX-CD2, which enables firms with small quantities to destroy data at their own sites using the machine.



Best safe practices are not only formulated, but adopted and put to use at D3, Inc. whose corporate structure demands not only economical, but ecological, methodology which makes it a totally "green company," with 100 percent of materials recycled, regardless of whether they came from on-site or off-site.



The bottom line, however, is that the "bad guys" are getting better and better at retrieving individual and corporate data which, with the ushering in of the digital age can be stolen for a variety of reason, thus breaking security trusts which were normally kept safe and sound. With today's release of the DX-CD2, a product is out there which satisfies stringent federal regulations which are getting stricter, while providing it to the public at a cost of less than $0.05 a disc.



"Like Humpty Dumpty who fell off the wall and could not be put back together again by all the King's horses and men, a CD-ROM cannot be put back together again after processing by our DX-CD2," Hutchison said. "Our patented products provide the peace of mind needed to first create, and then destroy, digital information once it is deemed no longer useful."

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