I believe Chris was expressing his surprise that a server that potentially contains huge amounts of personal data (hospital) would be given out without the hospital IT staff wiping the drives themselves first. "Sure you can have it if you promise to wipe the drives", won't help if any of the data got into the wild :0
I work in the medical field and something like this in our company would get fools fired lopaka ________________________________ From: Rick Glazier <[email protected]> To: The Hardware List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, January 4, 2010 9:37:58 PM Subject: Re: [H] Sometimes you have to wonder... What Type and Model number? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS/6000> Even a ten year old Super Computer is a little slow "today"... Let us know how you make out. (Thanks.) Rick Glazier From: <tmservo > Sometimes you have to wonder... > Client, good friend, calls me today and says he was 'given' something and > asked if I had interest. I was kind of stunned when he > told me what. A quick phone call and I was told 'yes, its fine, they > promised to erase all the drives' > > What were they given? An rs/6000 in a cabinet the hospital just replaced. > 'Just make sure to wipe the data?'. You have got to be > kidding me. Yellow truck picked it up headed my way this afternoon. > Sent via BlackBerry
