On 2/21/10 12:28 PM, John Musbach wrote:
On 2/21/10, Dan<[email protected]> wrote:
I've received HDs containing patient data several times. Each time I
contacted the *patient*, not the seller.
ha, I bought a se/30 off eBay and it turned out to have been
previously used by a secretary at kpmg and they hadn't erased the hard
drive leaving licensed copies of ms word and Claris works on the HD
along with records containing corporate account numbers as well as the
names, addresses, and phone numbers of every employee, manager, and
CEO of the company. Pretty scary to learn that a major tax company
doesn't remove such information from their computers before disposing
of them.
On the flip side you see a lot of used computers now a days with no hard
drive. I got a 3400c cheap but not only was the drive and drive carrier
missing the drive cable had been cut off. I mean, come on, how lazy are
they to not unplug the cable. It ought to be easier to pull the cable
than to dig out a cutting tool to cut it.
I guess it's cheaper to shred the drive than to wipe it fully.
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