confidential info on old harddrives.

From: Sipke de Wal <sipke_at_wxs.nl>
Date: Sat May 29 22:10:49 1999

Fair enough, You make a point regarding continued aviability of classic
computers. And going straight to the press would indeed be foolish. But
it may make sense that the public be educated on this issue otherwise
somebody may inadvertently create some vital-info leak an all the press
jumps the bandwagon in a way that will make every body as distrustfull
as
about the Y2K issue.

Therefore my remarks should have been taken a bit ironously. :)

Sipkw


Tony Duell wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe you should inform the press. Taking care that they do not publish
> > any sensitive data and stipulating that your personalia will not be
> > revealed.
>
> Isn't that the _worst_ thing you could do?
>
> At the moment there is no problem. All of us here (I hope) are sensible
> about deleting personal data. So there is no risk in giving any of us a
> machine with such data on it.
>
> The last thing we need is the public saying "I couldn't be sure that none
> of my [love letters/tax returns/medical records] were on that
> [Altair/PERQ/DEC 10/etc] so I broke it into little pieces so that nobody
> could ever read them"
>
> -tony
Received on Sat May 29 1999 - 22:10:49 BST