Information security, recycling and irony

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:12:14PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> writes:
> 
> > I just experienced an interesting incident involving information
> > security practices.
> >
> > At a client's organization I recently, and very gently, urged a DBA to
> > stop their practice of recycling the printouts from test runs of certain
> > reports.
> >
> > These test runs were huge so it's understandable that they didn't want to
> > just throw away all the paper.  But these reports contained ALL the
> > confidential information about their clients. 
> 
> Exactly how hard is it to run it through a shredder, *then* recycle it?

They were usiing the version of recycle that includes re-use in it.

As in use the paper for other things before throwing it away (to be
re-pulped into new paper).

> 
> Sure, if one side is blank, then you've wasted one potential use.  The
> cure for that is 4 or 8 up, duplex as the default setting on *all*

Would break the premise of the test run. Has to come out same as final
form.


> your printers.  If they need to print something out all pretty and
> nice on 1-up, single sided, make them beg for it!
> -- 
> 
> Seeya,
> Paul "Have you hugged a tree today?"
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