If you're in a situation where throwaway-hardware makes sense, you'll care how the throwing-away is actually done. While not throwaway hardware, the company I

If you're in a situation where throwaway-hardware makes sense, you'll care how the throwing-away is actually done. While not throwaway hardware, the company I work for destroys hard drives and other persistent memory devices before discarding computers. If the persistent memory device cannot be easily and reliably destroyed, the whole device is. I bet journalists with sensitive information are far more thorough.