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lol, imagine you paid a company to recycle old hard drives or documents and they resold them instead.

• andrewjl 6y ago
  You're right. I misunderstood the article and edited my comments.
• franga2000 6y ago
  No! That is not even close to being comparable! These devices are almost always soft-wiped before being shipped out and failing that, always 100% encrypted. Many of these were either scavenged for parts, all but one of which are entirely non-sensitive, or re-sold whole, which necessarily entails another software wipe, making recovery of ciphertext near impossible (but also, still encrypted even if you did). "lol, imagine being so blinded by greed that you would destroy thousands of working devices, force barely-paid workers in horrible conditions to make almost identical devices out of dirty materials mined by children with guns to their heads, which you would then proceed to sell to those same consumers whose devices you just threw away for more than a month's salary."