2022-10-06
materiality of the cloud: Microsoft, Amazon, US, EU and UK governments SHRED their decommissioned data drives, sometimes every three to five years. Instead of simply wiping and reselling them, at least 20mn drives are destroyed annually in the US alone!!!! https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
An investigation shows Amazon, Microsoft, and others destroy millions of data storage devices each year, creating huge waste when software wiping methods exist
Companies like Amazon and Microsoft routinely destroy used hard drives in the name of data security — but industry insiders say there is a better option Tweets: @halvarflake , @fin...