On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Samuel Weiler wrote:
Also consider used laptops: I just picked up a used Dell Latitude
for about the same price as a netbook (and half the price of IETF
registration), and I'm delighted.
Given that sometimes the border goons use some aggressive data
recovery approaches, used laptops are somewhat interesting. Are you
SURE that some erased sector doesn't contain a vestigial image of
something embarassing? If it does, can you prove it wasn't you that
left it there?
Note that some of the "secure" facilities I've worked in dispose of
used drives by software erasing, beating them with a sledgehammer,
degaussing, baking in a ceramics kiln, degaussing again, and then
beating with a sledgehammer again. Worried about what might be
recoverable from those drives?
--
Dean Willis
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