Comment Re:Not really the point (Score 1) 411
Excellent post.
I was suprised at the naiveté of the original topic heading. With all the security breaches that hit the newspapers these days (and all that don't!), I would expect that physical destruction of hard drives that are retired would certainly be the written standard, even if it's not always practiced. It's easy and cheap with desktop systems, sort of understandable how physical destruction might not happen for certain laptops though.
The contents of your computer are important and need to make the migration from your new system to old system. So, having a real backup of the system contents is a critical part of daily operation and migration as well. This is even more important for servers than desktops.
So, the cockammamie thing about all this is that the White House seems to be insisting on a pitifully poor system of back up and continuity, or are lying about why this poor system exists. For everybody else, doing this right is necessary to stay in business. For the White House, it's a violation of federal law to fail to keep these records.
Of course, some people don't seem to think that federal law applies to them, do they?
I was suprised at the naiveté of the original topic heading. With all the security breaches that hit the newspapers these days (and all that don't!), I would expect that physical destruction of hard drives that are retired would certainly be the written standard, even if it's not always practiced. It's easy and cheap with desktop systems, sort of understandable how physical destruction might not happen for certain laptops though.
The contents of your computer are important and need to make the migration from your new system to old system. So, having a real backup of the system contents is a critical part of daily operation and migration as well. This is even more important for servers than desktops.
So, the cockammamie thing about all this is that the White House seems to be insisting on a pitifully poor system of back up and continuity, or are lying about why this poor system exists. For everybody else, doing this right is necessary to stay in business. For the White House, it's a violation of federal law to fail to keep these records.
Of course, some people don't seem to think that federal law applies to them, do they?
