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An imperfect solution might be to buy his laptop for enough money to allow him get a new laptop and the licensed software on the laptop that he purchased. Doing
by gvb 11y ago
An imperfect solution might be to buy his laptop for enough money to allow him get a new laptop and the licensed software on the laptop that he purchased. Doing this at the time of dismissal would make it more likely to regain control of the data. [Edit add] Also, give him opportunity to copy his data off the hard drive. This would have to be supervised, obviously.
Addresses:
* A delete may not delete the PII because it could be in multiple places and deletes don't really delete unless you do a secure delete that truly overwrites the deleted data.
* Gives him a monetary incentive to cooperate.
Does not address:
* Any backups that he might have that are out of your control.
- rdc12 11y agoSecure delete has become quite difficult to achieve, if it is on a SSD then you may only be safe with an ATA command, but not all drives will even do that right[1]. It is even hard to be sure that you have over-written every block anyway, due to over-provisioning. Filesystems can also make this quite difficult (and that is without considering snaphots), most journalling and log-structured filesystems break the old shred [2] program for instance. [1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast11/tech/full_papers/... [2] man shred