RJM62
Touchdown! Greaser!
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2007
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- Upstate New York
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Geek on the Hill
...for intentionally wiping a hard drive, at the client's request.
It turns out the client had an important document stashed in some odd location, and forgot to back it up when he gave the PC to my friend for secure data deletion / recycling. Now he wants his document back, and my buddy already wiped the drive -- using the Gutman method, no less. Talk about irrecoverable data.
Unfortunately, he didn't obtain any sort of written document from the client, who now claims he didn't know that the data would really be irrecoverable, and is threatening to sue.
I do a lot of those jobs myself, usually on a handshake. Not any more. I just finished drafting a form that future clients will have to sign stating that they are indeed hiring me for the specific purpose of rendering their data irrecoverable. I'll have my lawyer look it over tomorrow. A lot of these jobs come up this time of the year, as people get rid of their old computers after the holidays.
-Rich
It turns out the client had an important document stashed in some odd location, and forgot to back it up when he gave the PC to my friend for secure data deletion / recycling. Now he wants his document back, and my buddy already wiped the drive -- using the Gutman method, no less. Talk about irrecoverable data.
Unfortunately, he didn't obtain any sort of written document from the client, who now claims he didn't know that the data would really be irrecoverable, and is threatening to sue.
I do a lot of those jobs myself, usually on a handshake. Not any more. I just finished drafting a form that future clients will have to sign stating that they are indeed hiring me for the specific purpose of rendering their data irrecoverable. I'll have my lawyer look it over tomorrow. A lot of these jobs come up this time of the year, as people get rid of their old computers after the holidays.
-Rich