confidential info on old harddrives. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Jun 1999

...
  I think I have mentioned this before, but at work I
have been told that I
 cannot have a disused tape _drive_ decause it has been used to back up
 payroll data.  I realise that this is just the over exagerrated paranoia of 

Ouch!  I wasn't refused the tape drive on these grounds, but I was refused the
tapes.  In vain did I try and point out that this drive was never used for
recording computer data - it was a very nice analogue machine used for recording
machine vibrations etc. for later analysis back at the lab...

Philip.