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> Exactly how is throwing a readable hard drive in your local dumpster more secure than Apple's dedicated drive-erasure-or-disposal facility? I agree with many
by ericb 16y ago
> Exactly how is throwing a readable hard drive in your local dumpster more secure than Apple's dedicated drive-erasure-or-disposal facility?
I agree with many of your points, but would argue throwing a hard drive in a dumpster is more secure. Bank robbers rob banks because that's where the money is. Where would tech savvy people looking for unerased hard drives find a supply--where the hard drives are! Those folks are more likely to work at Apple than dumpster dive for a living.
- mechanical_fish 16y agoWell, it depends on the threat model. If someone has the plan to search through a thousand hard drives belonging to a cross-section of random people, one byte at a time, looking for something of value, then sure - it might be worth the effort to corrupt someone at Apple. But if you are an industrial spy looking for a particular secret, or a personal enemy looking for data about one person, or an aspiring burglar casing a particular building - you look in the trash can belonging to your target. I think the latter threat is as plausible as the former.