Leaving no shred of Y2K evidence

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Ready to worry about the latest Y2K wrinkle? In David Haffner's opinion, companies that thought the computer bug was behind them should be looking ahead to the risks associated with post-Year 2000.

Haffner, president of Document Services Inc., comes to this view naturally. He's in the shredding business, not that you would know that from his Pittsburgh-area location in an industrial park remade from a closed steel mill.

There, DSI is housed in the sky-blue metal building known as Building 18. Aside from the number and a forbidding Do Not Enter sign, you'd never know that a top-secret enterprise operates within. Normally, Haffner likes the anonymity.

But he recently saw an office-products retailer promoting its printing capability to companies that want to back up Y2K-vulnerable computer data on paper. The ad provoked a brainstorm.

Haffner wondered whether the companies planning to print their computer files had considered security issues involved in discarding reams of data after Y2K fears faded into the new year.

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Interesting Y2K privacy issue.

-- John (jh@NotReal.ca), November 30, 1999

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-- John (jh@NotReal.ca), November 30, 1999.


You got to admire the guy's lateral thinking and business sense. It's not a bad idea, business-wise.

The title of the thread had me thinking about something else. If y2k is calamitous, then lots of people are going to want to know who's responsible, and how it came to be. Which in some sense, makes y2k- nuts valuable resources for the future. And if humans are to kick on and make things better in the future, then they'll need to be knowing just what went wrong with y2k. There is a place in the future for those who can explain just what went down.

It's a good thing to do, just to bear witness. (Although the y2k situation certainly suggests quite a few other courses of action, many along the lines of CYA.) (;>< )

-- number six (Iam_not_a_number@hotmail.com), November 30, 1999.


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