{"id":1061731,"date":"2022-10-06T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1061731"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T13:23:20","slug":"why-big-tech-shreds-millions-of-storage-devices-it-could-reuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1061731","title":{"rendered":"Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shredding-3-800x613-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tech decommissioning businesses have been transformed from what some describe as a collection of &quot;man with a van&quot; outfits into a regulated industry.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shredding-3.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"2622\" data-width=\"3420\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Tech decommissioning businesses have been transformed from what some describe as a collection of &#8220;man with a van&#8221; outfits into a regulated industry. (credit: Lorne Campbell, Guzelian, and SWEEEP Kuusakoski)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Mick Payne remembers the moment the madness of the way we dispose of our data was brought home to him.<\/p>\n<p>The chief operating officer of Techbuyer, an IT asset disposal company in Harrogate, was standing in a large windowless room of a data center in London surrounded by thousands of used hard drives owned by a credit card company. Knowing he could wipe the drives and sell them on, he offered a six-figure sum for all the devices.<\/p>\n<p>The answer was no. Instead, a lorry would be driven up to the site, and the data-storing devices would be dropped inside by authorized security personnel. Then industrial machines would shred them into tiny fragments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1887511#p3\">Read 40 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1887511&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1887511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Tech decommissioning businesses have been transformed from what some describe as a collection of &#8220;man with a van&#8221; outfits into a regulated industry. (credit: Lorne Campbell, Guzelian, and SWEEEP Kuusakoski) Mick Payne remembers the moment the madness of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1061731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1061731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}