1. Why do you think grocery stores have a frequenct buyer program? Perhaps to collect data? 2. Other than my 16 lb seldge and chopping block, I have another simple solution for data storage on a hard drive. Once there was a slogan "hard drives were for programs, floppy drives for data." Today we could change the last part to CD roms are for data, or perhaps portable hard drives. Personally, I use Zip drives. Jim Ussailis Original Message: ----------------- From: Chris Woods cswoods at gmail.com Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:20:49 -0400 To: mattl at florenceit.net, Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Re: Recycling dead computers? ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. ** You too can help the group ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. It occurs to me that there is clearly an environmental component to data security. The bottom line is that all this personal data that is collected and stored by various businesses creates not just the problem of securing that data (which is often done poorly) but also the problem of rendering the hardware 'too toxic' for simple reuse and recycling. Perhaps one of the best things we can all do to mitigate this problem is to begin refusing to provide personal data when it isn't absolutely necessary. Some things to consider: Do online merchants I use store my credit card number (I'm looking at you iTunes)? What about brick and mortar outlets? Do I use frequent buyer cards at the grocery store? Do I fill out membership forms that require far more personal information than is required to provide the service (web sites, etc)? Just something to think about... Chris Woods _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE