23 Apr
2005
23 Apr
'05
11:38 a.m.
At 12:03 AM 4/23/05 -0500, you wrote:
That hasn't been my experience. I shop at several scrap/recycling places
on a routine basis and they seldom have NDAs. The ones in this area get a
LOT of computers from NASA and military contractors and the source
usuallies pull the hard drives if they're concerned about them but the rest
of the computer goes out for recycling. EVERY recycler in this area readily
resells the stuff if someone shows up with money. ONE scrap place here USED
to have a Must Destroy contract from ONE of his sources and he wasn't
allowed to sell ANY electronic device or even components but that's the
only time I ran into that situation. Any company or person that relies on a
scrpper or recycler to "decomishion" their computers and destroy sensitive
data is an idiot!!!! The recyclers don't have the knowledge or time or
concern to do that adaquetely.
Joe
So find that place and offer them money for the stuff before they
shred it.
I've been around said operations before. Often you have to be a bonded
employee to even see what's on the floor. And you'll NEVER be allowed
to take anything off the floor in anything bigger than granular size.
They sign NDA's with the places that ship them the gear, therefore the
machines don't need to be 'decomissioned' or the data wiped because a
secured, bonded disposal site is guaranteed to destroy it.