19 Jan
2012
19 Jan
'12
10:48 a.m.
At 12:14 PM 1/19/2012, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
In the auto junkyard world there's the concept of
"salvage title" for motor vehicles and the whole process is nicely codified by
the state.
In the military surplus world there's the concept of "de-milling" surplus
but I'd be surprised if that applied to a pile of Macs.
Any computer recycler of any significant size has procedures to reassure
commercial clients that their hard drives will be wiped in a bonded fashion
in order to comply with their industry requirements for data privacy.
In my experience, perhaps a third of today's PC consumers ask about what'll
happen to their hard drive when they give me an old computer for recycling.
They just want to be assured I'll erase their drive. Maybe one consumer
in a hundred asks to keep their hard drive so they can destroy it themselves,
and I'd say most of them don't know how to do it.
- John