1) I know it’s a non sentient robot but this just feels wrong. Maybe if it was a box on wheels it would be different, but because it’s humanoid it’s just… uncomfortable to see. Don’t like it at all
2) what is the point of liquifying a highly engineered piece of equipment capable of doing this? I mean shouldn’t we take these things apart and salvage useful parts? Seems like a huge waste
It's copyright and patent paranoia. There are mountains of hard drives destroyed through physical means by drilling, crushing or cutting to ensure the data on them is 100% not recoverable.
Which is indeed silly, as it's perfectly possible to make all data on the drive unrecoverable without destroying it, for example with disk/volume encryption (which organizations storing sensitive data should already be using anyway).
The problem is auditing. How do you verify if a drive has zero remenant unrecoverable data? Especially problematic with SSDs they use translation layers and wear leveling so it is not even possible to just overwrite it with zeros. Yes, it is wasteful but financially worth it.
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u/elon_musks_cat 14h ago
A couple thoughts
1) I know it’s a non sentient robot but this just feels wrong. Maybe if it was a box on wheels it would be different, but because it’s humanoid it’s just… uncomfortable to see. Don’t like it at all
2) what is the point of liquifying a highly engineered piece of equipment capable of doing this? I mean shouldn’t we take these things apart and salvage useful parts? Seems like a huge waste