On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem:

> > Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock your servers away so that
> > nobody has physical access to them.
>
> What if you sell them or give them back (leased machines)? Do you
> erase your discs beforehand.

Depends on the content of the disks. If it is sensitive, I wipe them
(not just rm or mkfs). But then, this problem has never occurred to
me. I don't lease servers, nor do I sell them. Usually, my servers
aren't sellable by the time I can't use them any more. ;-)

Uwe

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