[GTALUG] Ten grand for this?

[William Porquet]

Also, it the drives won't mount they'll need to have the platters
destroyed, no?

Still pricey.
On Dec 17, 2015 5:18 PM, "David Thornton" <northdot9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wipe or destroy? Dban is better than rm.
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 5:07 PM  <phiscock at ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
>
>> From Metro News today:
>>
>> Two top McGuinty aides charged in gas plants computer probe
>>
>> ....
>> Faist was paid $10,000 for wiping the drives out of the taxpayer-funded
>> Liberal caucus budget, police allege. The party subsequently repaid the
>> sum to the public treasury.
>> ....
>>
>> Ten grand to erase some hard drives?
>>
>> Boot a Linux CD or USBKey.
>> Change to the root directory.
>> rm -rf *.
>>
>> Done.
>>
>> Or maybe it was $50.00 to erase the drives and $9950.00 for 'discretion'.
>>
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>> Peter Hiscocks
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