Re: hard drive destruction

[Al Mac <macwheel99 () sigecom net>]

I agree that it is best to have professionals do the obliteration, because 
most businesses do not have personnel with relevant skills and check lists 
to take care of all computers they done with.  However, there needs to be 
certification that the professionals actually do what they contracted to do.

There have been breaches where some computer trade-in place was supposed to 
wipe disk on the old system, then the used market gets the confidential 
data not erased.  The computer trade-in place had dropped the ball.

This also applies to passing old company computers to employees, or sales 
direct to other companies who accept hand me down equipment.  There have 
been breaches in that area also.

Al Mac


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