On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:12:56AM -0800, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> > Unfortunately, all the local colleges and universities that I know of have
> > an "All surplus must be destroyed" policy. Destroying PCs I can understand
> > (data protection), but destroying the cables too?
>
> That's in case there are any data bits still in the cables that
> haven't been flushed out. (the actual reason that was given why
> all RAM chips must be removed from machines before they are sold!)
I have seen tape drives from financial institutions destroyed (no joke)
because they had been used to write confidential data. Sound like the
same goobs work there. :-)
-ethan
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