Today I finished wiping the hard drive on my old work laptop (by booting Ubuntu from a USB stick and running shred --verbose --iterations=25 --zero /dev/sda
for complete and utter bit destruction) and handed it back in to library IT. Here are the stickers on the old one:
And I’m off to a good start with the new one, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free Software Foundation, Tor and Zotero: four important allies in the modern library.
There’s a tiny Tor sticker over the webcam, too.