NASA Sells Computers Chock Full of Sensitive Data

[Sirfindafold]

fuckin' george w bush.

[Wolfman]

You forgot Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and John Boehner, oh---- and Haliburton.

[Dinsdale]

Government efficiency for ya.

When I worked for a computer distributor, we got companies' used comptuers for resale/salvage.

And crazy us -- it's not worth salvaging a used hard drive that's worth a couple of dollars. The companies we worked for were pretty adamant about their old data, believe it or not. The used drives came out of the machine, and went straight to the drill press, and got a hole drilled all the way through them.

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to use a fairly standard industry technique for destroying sensitive data before it hits the public.

[smackaholic]

i was thinking the same thing.

HDs are nearly worthless, particularly old ones. just pull and destroy them.

[Dinsdale]

i was thinking the same thing.

HDs are nearly worthless, particularly old ones. just pull and destroy them.

Us non-rocket scientists would line up however many hard drives were turned in, then immediately send a pic to the company clearly showing the correct number of hard drives, with holes in them (eats drill bits like crazy-btw. HD paltters are hard).

I suppose we could have copied them first, but since the company kind of wanted to stay in business, it wasn't an issue.

[smackaholic]

couldn't you just take the sledgomatic to them? seems quicker.

[Dinsdale]

Hypothetically, if you could pull the platters out, you could get data off the drive.

A hole through the platters pretty much negates that.