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?
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