Company destroys electronics with top-secret data

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CEO Arleen Chafitz, left, and husband Steve Chafitz, president, pictured Jan. 2 in Frederick, Md., run e-End, which specializes in the secure sanitization of electronic media and data residing on end of life equipment no longer used by government agencies, contractors services or businesses.

Company destroys electronics with top-secret data
By Justin George | The Baltimore Sun
Posted: Thursday, February 6, 2014 4:30 am

FREDERICK, Md. — In a 20,000-square-foot warehouse, where visitors are required to trade in a driver’s license for a visitor’s badge, some of the nation’s secrets are torn apart, reduced to sand or demagnetized until they are forever silent.

“We make things go away,” said Arleen Chafitz, owner and CEO of e-End Secure Data Sanitization and Electronics Recycling. Her husband, Steve Chafitz, is the company’s president.

The company’s clients include the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. Its work: destroying hard drives, computers, monitors, phones and other sensitive equipment that governments and corporations don’t want in the wrong hands.

In a state that’s become a center for federal intelligence organizations and private contractors gathering top-secret information, e-End has carved out a niche by destroying the hardware on which such organizations gathered classified material.