John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Evens Garde <evans.garde@gmail.com> wrote:
Our company has been offered this tape library free with 200 tapes to do with it. All they are asking is for me to erase the tapes. Why doesn't the donor erase the tapes? If it's that important that they be erased, and I were in
Jack Malone wrote: their position, I would make sure all sensitive data is erased BEFORE turning the tapes over to someone else.
My company has served as a consultant to many small firms that did not have the technical know how to do this. One of these companies offered us an entire server (a fairly substantial machine) for no money if we would promise to wipe the drives.
In such an instance, I would be hiring a consultant firm to set up the system to erase the tapes, and THEN give them away.
Its not that uncommon to leave this task to a trusted contractor.
This doesn't sound like leaving it to a trusted contractor... it sounds like leaving it to the recipient. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org