"Enterprise B&B/Cayman Islands, BWI" wrote:
>
> I told/asked Kay about wanting to know the reasoning behind the
> introduction of the demil portion of HR-4205. Kay said her understanding
> was that it stemmed from some incident where some computers were sold to
> the public w/hard drives still in them which contained at least "sensitive"
> material and the demil portion of HR-4205 was to address that problem. If
> this is true, and that's probably as good an explanation as any, isn't this
> a little overkill?
I HAVE NEVER IN 15 YEARS OF BUYING SURPLUS SEEN A COMPUTER LISTED AS A DEMIL
ITEM!!!
I have seen lots of them scrapped, and now they are sent to unicor (federal
prison system) for rebuild and distribution to schools.
This sounds like another 1/2 truth rumor unfortunately.
I would be surprised if we ever get a true answer on the subject.
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