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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
degauss .
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Examples
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On the occasions where this process fails and there is a risk that data remains on the hard drive, it is removed from the machine and "degaussed" using electromagnetics, before being physically crushed and sent to a shredding machine that cuts the drives down to pieces of less than 25mm squared.
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The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed.
Eli can retire Part VIII - The EPA reads Rabett Run EliRabett 2010
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The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed.
When you're in a hole stop digging EliRabett 2010
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Have any of you rabbits ever degaussed a cassett, not much left of the original is there?
When you're in a hole stop digging EliRabett 2010
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After tapes have been degaussed, how much of the origional signal is still on the tapes do you think?
When you're in a hole stop digging EliRabett 2010
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Have any of you rabbits ever degaussed a cassett, not much left of the original is there?
Eli can retire Part VIII - The EPA reads Rabett Run EliRabett 2010
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(Who knew when you deleted an email, it also degaussed the tape and removed it from the computer room … those damn clever programmers)
Waldo Jaquith - Senate Commerce Committee approves 35mpg CAFE standard. 2007
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It turns out that they were moral defectives, willing to bear false witness to a world audience, and it looks like Francisco is yet another ID advocate with a degaussed moral compass. zcowboy
The New Antievolution Strategy: Just Make Bizarre Stuff Up - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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When the contractor could not repair the drive, it was recycled without being degaussed or even purged-leaving unencrypted data behind.
Views 2010
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When the contractor could not repair the drive, it was recycled without being degaussed or even purged-leaving unencrypted data behind.
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