So it's not necessarily the fault of the guy who owned this originally, at least not completely. There are other security measures that should be in place elsewhere.
I think the guy who owned the E2 had a responsibility to the folks listed in his PDA to erase their entries before passing the PDA to someone --anyone-- else. And Circuit City had a responsibility to him to wipe out all traces of any information before reselling the thing. Both parties failed, IMHO.
My current employer is very paranoid about data on disks. When we decommission hard drives in any form, they're treated like nuclear waste: they're carefully inventoried, tagged & placed into locked storage for the next 50,000+ years. No retired disk leaves the company. Needless to say, like nuclear waste, we're running out of storage space.
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Date: 2006-03-20 06:28 pm (UTC)I think the guy who owned the E2 had a responsibility to the folks listed in his PDA to erase their entries before passing the PDA to someone --anyone-- else. And Circuit City had a responsibility to him to wipe out all traces of any information before reselling the thing. Both parties failed, IMHO.
My current employer is very paranoid about data on disks. When we decommission hard drives in any form, they're treated like nuclear waste: they're carefully inventoried, tagged & placed into locked storage for the next 50,000+ years. No retired disk leaves the company. Needless to say, like nuclear waste, we're running out of storage space.