Same here, now we have to replace countless testing PCs because they don’t have TPM 2. In our case migrating the software wasn’t that difficult, but still a shame to throw out perfectly good hardware. And due to paranoid internal regulations, the PCs are to be fully shredded as well…
Yeah I asked my boss if I could take one home and turn it into a Linux machine for testing and he said the same thing. He even wanted photo evidence that they were destroyed.
Same here, now we have to replace countless testing PCs because they don’t have TPM 2. In our case migrating the software wasn’t that difficult, but still a shame to throw out perfectly good hardware. And due to paranoid internal regulations, the PCs are to be fully shredded as well…
Yeah I asked my boss if I could take one home and turn it into a Linux machine for testing and he said the same thing. He even wanted photo evidence that they were destroyed.
Why not just destroy the drives? The mobo, cpu, ram, and PSU should be ok to reuse.
you overestimate the technical understanding of the person that made the “shred all decommissioned computers” rule
The other side of this is anyone who can’t afford a computer, may use your software and you can’t really know if it works without tpm2.