Yeah but as a company I couldn't take that risk. The costs in customer data being lost are
huge in terms of fines, customers who will leave because of it, and market reputation.
Customer billing data especially is an absolute no-no to lose so you take no risks.
But yeah I wouldn't bother going as far as crushing the disk for just a home PC ! Might take a hammer to it though.
Incidentally for supplying about 30 secure "bins" for thousands of hard disks (lockable, and then only unlockable by the security company), then collecting them all full of hard disks from three different datacenters in 2 cities and crushing them, they only charged me about 2.5k euros. I almost fell over when I got the quote.
This is one of the "bins" after we'd only just started:
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Posted By: Steve in Holland on August 18th 2011 at 14:13:23
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- Please stop it (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Aug 18, 13:46:15
- Yeah, it's cracking me up too :-( (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Aug 18, 13:47:42
- My opinion fella (General Chat) - pants, Aug 18, 13:51:13
- Option number B. Formatting is no guarantee. You could try to zero it: (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 18, 13:59:30
- true, I'd think of that as losing your keys in a way (General Chat) - pants, Aug 18, 14:01:41
- as in (General Chat) - pants, Aug 18, 14:02:35
- Yeah but as a company I couldn't take that risk. The costs in customer data being lost are (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 18, 14:13:23
- need a big old gauss innit (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Aug 18, 14:28:11
- Yeah but as a company I couldn't take that risk. The costs in customer data being lost are (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 18, 14:13:23
- as in (General Chat) - pants, Aug 18, 14:02:35
- true, I'd think of that as losing your keys in a way (General Chat) - pants, Aug 18, 14:01:41
- job done (General Chat) - pants, Aug 18, 13:57:39
- Bit cheeky selling that, even if for a euro (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 18, 14:02:21
- true, I didn't fancy talking beebies through making one (General Chat) - pants, Aug 18, 14:30:35
- Bit cheeky selling that, even if for a euro (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 18, 14:02:21
- Option number B. Formatting is no guarantee. You could try to zero it: (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Aug 18, 13:59:30
- Put a collar and some wheels on it and call it Rover (n/m) (General Chat) - Only1Doherty, Aug 18, 13:49:33
- My opinion fella (General Chat) - pants, Aug 18, 13:51:13
- Yeah, it's cracking me up too :-( (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Aug 18, 13:47:42
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