Unless the quantity of 40mm f2 front elements I have in stock has
somehow become important.
So, can you recommend any free software for wiping open HD space? :-)
I posted a simple question, funny how these get twisted by "folks" with
possibly too much time on their hands.
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Jan Steinman wrote:
> There's a couple things people are neglecting:
>
> 1) The value of the data to someone else, and
>
> 2) the cost of retrieving that data.
>
> If #1 is sufficiently low and #2 is sufficiently high, you shouldn't
> worry. I expect that's the case for most of us on this list.
>
> Of course, from within one's own ego, inspired by the constant message
> of the media and your government ("FEAR! FEAR!"), it would seem that
> the value of the data is immense, and the cost of retrieving it trivial.
>
> But try to not be so full of yourself for a moment: just what makes
> you think it is worth it to someone to go to the trouble to try to get
> stuff off your drive? Even if, somewhere on that drive, you once had
> your credit card information listed in a file, or an income tax return
> from five years ago, do you think someone's going to look through
> every block on the drive, through old photographs, tons of OM list
> email, useless system cache files, all that shareware you've
> downloaded, etc. just to find the juicy bits that may be worth
> something to someone?
>
> "Security through obscurity" is a powerful concept. The real hackers
> go after high-value targets, because the cost of finding something
> useful is so high.
>
> :::: Monoculture is where the logic of nature collides with the logic
> of economics; which logic will ultimately prevail can never be in
> doubt. -- Michael Pollan ::::
> :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality http://www.EcoReality.org ::::
>
>
>
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