Belgian Minister of Administrative Simplification and ICT Van
Quickenborne is renewing the ambitious plan to provide people in lower
income scales with a PC and Internet connectivity. Although this is a
great idea, the way he wants to do this frightens me a bit as he wants
to use old governement PCs and distribute these for the project. This is
actually still a great idea, but did anyone think of possible
consequences? After all, a simple format of the hard disk is not exactly
enough to ensure that potentially confidential data can not be
recovered by yours truly.
A very nice read on this topic is a paper by Craig Valli, Throwing out the Enterprise with the Hard Disk, and its follow-up paper (co-authored with Andrew Woodward) Oops They Did it Again: Results of the 2007 Australian Remnant Hard Disk Study.
Source: ZDNet
A very nice read on this topic is a paper by Craig Valli, Throwing out the Enterprise with the Hard Disk, and its follow-up paper (co-authored with Andrew Woodward) Oops They Did it Again: Results of the 2007 Australian Remnant Hard Disk Study.
Source: ZDNet
