17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Steve Bryan writes:
Tim May
Y2K: A good chance to reformat America's hard drive and empty the trash.
If you reformat the drives, there's no need to empty the trash.
I suspect the quote was meant to imply that the "trash" would get overwritten with 0s (or as this is cypherpunks overwritten with high quality random number output, multiple times!) (And if you want to be nitpicky about the metaphor, reformatting doesn't overwrite with 0s, typically, so the trash and all would still be there.) Adam