Wiping donated computers for recycling question

[M. Fioretti]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 11:19:12 AM +0100, Theo Schmidt (theo.schmidt at wilhelmtux.ch) wrote:
> M. Fioretti schrieb:
> 
> > 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!
> 
> Wher have you been these last years?

On this planet, where "Strict industry standards and government
regulations are in place that force organizations to mitigate the risk
of unauthorized exposure of confidential corporate and government
data" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_erasure, starting from
"Regulatory Compliance)

There will surely be many businesses that still do what you say, but
this doesn't mean that they are right or that anybody should make
business with them.

	Marco
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