From: Al Mac (macwheel99sigecom.net)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2006 - 12:52:32 CDT

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I agree that it is best to have professionals do the obliteration, because
most businesses do not have personnel with relevant skills and check lists
to take care of all computers they done with. However, there needs to be
certification that the professionals actually do what they contracted to do.

There have been breaches where some computer trade-in place was supposed to
wipe disk on the old system, then the used market gets the confidential
data not erased. The computer trade-in place had dropped the ball.

This also applies to passing old company computers to employees, or sales
direct to other companies who accept hand me down equipment. There have
been breaches in that area also.

Al Mac

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