On 2014-01-20, at 00:09, R.S. wrote: > > 2. LAS, BUT NOT LEAST: you assumed site's policies are reasonable. Security > people are reasonable. Bad assumption. There are so many cases proving the > opposite. As an example I've met lately: one has to degauss disk drives which > were never ever used for storing company data. Whole dasd box was never > attached to any host. However, in order to dispose the box, despite of common > sense, he has to remove every disk drive, degauss it, store it's serial > number in the protocol (as well as the vendor and type/model). Why? Policy! > The alternative may require maintaining an audit trail of which drives do not contain company data. This may be more expensive than degaussing everything, and bears the risk of misclassification.
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