At the current level: short and expensive.

Let's settle for security brothel.... (being unfair, i know, to regular brothels)

Actually it will be much, much better ;-).

The mahor hassle are not the liquids but the complete chain of senseless security theater that complicate travel but not bring any security (beyond the false sense of it).

Adding another snake oil device will not improve things.

No, my original sentence just intended to say: If we don't replace the current crop of politicians, they will pass ACTA sooner or later. We got a stay for ACTA and not a "nay" ;-).

My comma density is right for the German i grew up with. This means it is too high when i get in contact with the English language. Locations of my commas are pretty erratic even in my native tongue ;-).

I am afraid, they would do the same, should they catch me jubilating ;-).

Don't put your hopes to high. They are just waiting till the public's attention is elsewhere, e.g. occupied by a soccer cup.

There are two questions:

a) If you have drives with customer data of your customers and wish to refurbish them.

Here the answer is easy: Don't, if you don't have hundreds of drives, creating a safe procedure costs more than the drives will yield.

Every disk (that leaves us for ever) has an appointment with a drilling machine.

b) If you bought a refurbished drive with customer data on it.

Delete it before reading. Anything else brings trouble you're not getting paid for.

CU, Martin

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