Not so shocking

The article I found archived is not as shocking as the last, again from the bbc website, this article is named 'Computer: your data in whose hands?'. This applys to everyone and the concern expressed in the article is legitimate. The article is in regards to companys dumping old computers and not wiping the data off first. So there are dumped harddisks out there is sensitive information maybe even on you.

The reason why this doesn't shock me is I often recieved office supplys as a kid that were brand new but were still to be dumped, my dad a security guard at banks and was often asked on a yearly basis to dump all the office furneture computers etc, companys often writing it off as tax, Im not sure how that works, but because I recieved such things I was fully aware of the waste companys make and the fact they asked security guards to dump it means they treate it all like furneture including the computers, a very lazy postion to take. Its the companys duty to erase any information regarding there clients. Just plain lazy.

In the article out of 100 computer disk drives they checked that were dumped 50% of them had sensitive information on. A bad statistic, it should be quite worrying, add it to the list of privacy concerns that un are conrollable by the user.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/4271485.stm