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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