confidential info on old harddrives.

From: Sipke de Wal <sipke_at_wxs.nl>
Date: Sat May 29 22:20:31 1999

A last thought on this for you legal guys out there! Would'n it be
sensible to design some kind of 'declaration of trust' regarding private
content of equipment. So that the receivers can be held responsable for
any irrisponsable disclosure of private data. And also that the donator
has signifies that he has (had) knowledge about the informational
content of his donation. In serious cases a Judge may decide who has
acted liable. But most of ours would live by such a contact and it may
endorse reliable image about the restoration and preservation of classic
hardware & software.

Sipke de Wal


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 Taking care that they do not publish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 - 22:20:31 BST