[vox-tech] Legal Ethics Tech Question

[Gandalf Parker]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
> Was this Geek Squad?  I've heard tons of bad things about those
> guys.  I wouldn't be surprised to hear other tech repair people
> are just as bad.  (It's kind of like that video I saw a while back

I had a problem with one computer store. Apparently they felt nothing of 
copying games from peoples computers. The guy said "hell most of them are 
illegal copies that we are copying". I was pissed. Nothing on my machine 
is an illegal copy. And one of the games they copied was an unreleased 
beta that I had signed a non-disclosure contract on.

>> <personal note>
>> A friend of mine was over in Napa when another person dropped off their
>> computer for recycling. My friend asked if he could have the computer
>> instead. He came away with the computer and we found the hard drive
>> was NOT wripped clean of data.
>
> That is mind boggling.  That's like "here's a free filing cabinet",
> without bothering to empty it.

I have a bunch of machines in my garage that arent wiped. I dont remember 
whats on the hard drives. I added a USB external drive dock to my xmas 
wishlist. I would like to recover old programming code and such, then 
reformat them. Maybe even use them like floppies for making backups.
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Gandalf  Parker
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