All of these are very valid points. They are also 100% irrelevant. The company is contracting with a tech for some very specified and documented services. They are not conducting a security engagement and as best we know there is no secure data that needs protected on these machines.
The company is taking some additional safety steps before putting these drives in the mail. There is no real discussion about what arrangements have been made to review the tech’s work or the disposition of the drives once they arrive at the shipping destination. For all we know these laptops could hold all of our personal private info along with pics of our girlfriends doing nasty things to someone else. Or the drives could simply have a Citrix or Horizon client on them and never have seen any company related data at all (pretty common in the banking industry). If I needed the work and still did this type of work I would take the job as assigned. The original question was around licensing working for free from home. Now that we know the tool used licensing does not matter and I think we all greeted working form home for free is not a great idea and that has nothing to do with regulatory data, we just don’r work for free. If I were the customer and I hired a tech who started digging and speculating as far as we are I probably would save him the stress and find another tech. Maybe that is good, maybe that is bad but we need to keep our eye on the prize. The prize here is $$ for time to perform a very clear specified set of tasks. On Jan 29, 2015, at 12:38 PM, Klaus Hartnegg <[email protected]> wrote: > > A few years ago I read in a computer magazine, that people tried to restore > data after just one single sweep of overwriting a hard disk with zeroes. I > think they used a atomic force microscope to find traces of the old > magnetization. No chance. Todays hard disks have very reliable head > positioning, surface coating where the magnetic fields do not spread much, > and the erase coil is wider than the write coil. This might be different with > the brand new shingle magnetic recording, but this cannot yet be the case for > the harddisks in question here. > > Another issue is: does the leasing company really want the hard disks back? > Usually they resell such PCs with new harddisks, not with the used ones. >
