The "IT Reuse for Good charter" is interesting.
(Although I say this as someone whose business runs almost (but not quite) exclusively on second-hand / ex-corporate computers.)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/it-reuse-for-good-charter/the-it-reuse-for-good-charter
@neil To support this, we'd need much stronger regulation to ensure that software/firmware can be replaced/updated on devices that are out of the vendor's support period.
Also to protect reusability of devices where the vendor has ceased trading.
Reconome seem to provide a 12mth warrantee which feels a bit low today. CeX offer 5 years for most 2nd hand tech now!
Device support seems to be via Good Things Foundation delivered via Digital Inclusion Hubs. Near me this appears to be via my local library.
Probably ok for consumer use; not for business response times maybe?
Still, great to see something being tried!
@neil In practice, one of the biggest problems for reuse in our organisations contractual requirement to wipe drives to $excessive_standard which in practice means destroying SSDs, and a move to soldered flash.
This despite Full Disk Encryption
@neil a quick dig into the referenced playbook shows this initiative is supported by reconome:
https://recono.me/
They claim 'NIST 800-88 data wiping.'
Hopefully this means the device storage does not need to be destroyed, or this whole process is kinda useless 🤷♂️
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