VMS Drive Cleanup Assist
Gordon JC Pearce
gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Thu Oct 27 15:47:08 CDT 2005
Chuck Guzis wrote:
> That may be true, but you don't understand the mind of a manager.
> Everything done needs to be done for a payoff.
>
> IF there were a substantial tax incentive to let the drive go out of the
> door, that might warrant a second thought.
>
> But as it is, the payoff for ltaking the chance (however vanishingly
> miniscule) for letting an employee remove sensitive information from the
> premises is exactly zero. Hence, the safe route (turning into metallic
> hamburger) is the only route available--unless the employee can come up
> with a payoff. Eternal gratitude is seldom a motivator in today's
> corporate world.
Ah, but what if the $THREE_LETTER_AGENCY has a device that can
reassemble the drive fragments and read them? I read somewhere that
they can do that, these days...
Sci-fi is still sci-fi, no matter how much you might want to believe.
Gordon.
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