31 Mar
1998
31 Mar
'98
6:46 p.m.
As one facet of this, we might consider what people
would do with
their old systems, if they even got the *impression* that their
private information might be read by a new owner. They might
prefer to totally destroy the machine than to take a risk like
that.
I have had an instance of this recently. At work a tape drive attached to a
PC and which takes the same size casettes as my Sun386i is about to become
redundant. The an accounts clerk in the department concerned has said that
I will not be able to have the _drive_ because it has been used for
confidential data. The fact that the data is on the _tapes_ seems to
reflect on the availability of the drive!
Regards
Pete