Wiping donated computers for recycling question

[M. Fioretti]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 08:52:29 AM +0100, Theo Schmidt (theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch) wrote:

> > But for me if you're talking about reinstalling a class room
> > computer then using that in another classroom setting this is
> > overkill, infact nomatter what was on it if the end use is in a
> > supervised class room the reinstall is likely fine.
> 
> This is true, but if you get PCs e.g. from a bank they want
> reassurance that nobody can reconstruct their old data...

Er... sorry, maybe I'm missing something here but... are you saying
that there are still banks that do NOT thoroughly, professionally
erase by themselves all the hard drives of all the computers they
dismiss, BEFORE those computers even exit the bank? Because if that's
the case I don't want to ever have an account at those banks! No,
seriously!

    	 Marco
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