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October 2007 How To Properly Destroy a Hard Drive...Brett Burney, ediscoveryinfo.com says, BTTF may be one of the best ways to be absolutely sure you’ve destroyed data because otherwise you could be taking a chance that some data will be left behind.

September 2007 BTTF is mentioned in Sharon Nelson's "ride the lightning" Electronic Evidence Blog
NO BLINDFOLDS, NO CIGARETTES: CONDEMNED HARD DRIVES"In a shower of sparks and hums, crackles and pops, the media is rendered into shreds by a machine that looks much like an industrial air conditioner."

Articles Featuring Back Thru The Future

March 2008 The Afterlife of E-Waste BTTF President, Melanie Haga is interviewed for this article. See the video and read the insert called "Shredding the Data Trail" about proper disposal of records stored on hard drives.
Flyp Media

January 2008 Handle With Care Proper data storage and disposal strategies provide essential protection for law firms and their clients.
Dan Bayha Legal Management Magazine

December 2007 Data Destruction Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, made a prophetic observation in 1965. In what has become known as Moore’s Law, he theorized that computers’ storage capacity would double about every 18 months for the indefinite future. So far his theory seems to be holding true.
Keith Ecker Inside Counsel Magazine

November 2007 Physical Data Security, Management and Destruction for Legal IT Professionals As IT director, I oversee all information systems for the firm...
Michael Chung, Lester Schwab Katz & Dwyer, LLP LJN's Legal Tech Newsletter

September 2007 Lock Down Your Company’s Physical Security
Ensuring proper storage, handling and disposal of data media.
Dan Bayha IT Defense Magazine Cover Story

August 2007 Shred It Or Dread It Recently, two New Jersey-based entities suffered major consequences as a result of physical, not Internet-based, data exposures.
Christy Burke New Jersey Law Journal

August 2007 The American Lawyer, the nation's leading monthly magazine for lawyers, featured Back Thru The Future’s Safe Harbor Data Destruction in its August BarTalk column, under the title “Appetite for Destruction”. The column chronicled the Safe Harbor process from cradle to grave, starting with hard drives as they left a NYC law firm via armored vehicle and ending up at BTTF’s sizeable shredding machine. Click here to request an official reprint.
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July 2007 Get Back to the Real World of Security
Ensuring proper physical data security and destruction throughout the e-discovery process.
Christy Burke e-Discovery Law & Strategy

January 2007 Recycling Efforts No Match for Surging E-Waste Stream. This holiday season Americans gave each other more electronic gifts -- iPods, cell phones, computers, televisions, video game systems and various other gadgets -- than ever before. As the holiday decorations come down, they are now faced with the inevitable question: What to do with the...
Kelly Heyboer Star-Ledger

White Papers

September 2007 The Physical Security Side of Electronic Data Discovery: From Preservation to Destruction
Dan Bayha Law.com

Industry News

September 2007 Dan Bayha’s Lecture On Physical Data Security For Lawline.com Approved For CLE Credit By New York and California. Answering physical data security concerns for lawyers, Daniel F. Bayha, vice president of Back Thru the Future, created “Best Practices for Data Security and Sensitive Client Data,” an online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course on Lawline.com. The course has been approved for CLE credit by New York and California.

August 2007 Out With The Old As firms continue to upgrade their systems, administrators must understand the relative merits and risks of the options for disposing of suddenly unneeded computers.
Robert Johnson, National Association of Information Destruction Legal Management

April 2006 How to Deal with the Legal “Catch 22”
of Electronic Data Destruction How does an organization comply with the two legal requirements mandating the destruction of obsolete sensitive personal data and the termination of data destruction during litigation?
Dan Bayha ISSA Journal

Press Releases

November 2007 Technology Disposal Company Captures Business Success Award The New Jersey Small Business Development Centers (NJSBDC) honored 15 business owners from throughout New Jersey on Nov. 30 as
part of NJSBDC’s 2007 Small Business Growth Success Awards.

November 2007 Andover Township Is First Sussex County Municipality to Adopt Technology Disposal Program Melanie Haga, President of Back Thru The Future (BTTF) in Ogdensburg and Tim Day, Andover Township CFO, jointly announce the participation of Andover Township in BTTF’s new municipal technology disposal program.

October 2007 Free School Computer Disposal Program Hits 25 Tons Melanie Haga, CEO of Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling (BTTF), located in Ogdensburg, announced that a twenty-five ton milestone has been reached in her company’s free Sussex County public school computer recycling program.

June 2007 NJ Schools Win With Free Electronic Recycling Ever since a free electronic recycling program was instituted in Sussex County, in less than 5 months time, schools have recycled close to fifteen thousand pounds of retired computer equipment and peripherals.

April 2007 Data Destruction Scores Entrepreneurial Success Award At a recent awards presentation, Back Thru The Future was pleased to accept the Sussex County Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneurial Success Award.

January 2007 Dunbar Armored Announces Secure Data and Hard Drive Disposal Program with Back Thru The Future Computer Recycling. Partnership program provides organizations with secure transportation and certified destruction of sensitive data and computer hard drives.