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HaiKarate t1_j6n831n wrote

Reply to comment by bristow84 in Activation Lock is a great feature, but needs a rethink as 2020 Macs are turned into landfill by hugglenugget

Wiping the drives of decommissioned laptops and PCs is an extremely LOW priority for large enterprise IT departments. Not only have those units been depreciated on their corporate taxes, but also spending hours cleaning them up to resell for pennies on the dollar is hardly worth it to a company making billions of dollars.

Apple has been dealing with corporate IT for over 4 decades and is fully aware of this process. Apple even has their own large enterprise IT department, and experiences this, too.

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SomeRandomPerson66 t1_j6nhp9m wrote

I work for a company that's has about 350 employees. And IT has 8 employees including me. We repalce between 70 to 100 laptops every year around fall time. I haven been with the company for 2 years and seen it twice.

New laptop are ordered. Joined to our Microsoft intune program. Given to users. Old laptop taken from them.

Once the old laptops are backin the hands of IT. Remove/delete them from our Microsoft intune program, mark them as retired in our inventory system and toss them in a electronic relying bin that's picked up by a company and they wipe/provides certification of data distribution.

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vanhalenbr t1_j6pazjl wrote

Apple MDM has a way to allow secure and quick wipe. Because if set the MDM to ecrypt data you can just erase the header and that’s it. Even if you recover the data it’s encrypted and the key is erased from the Secure Enclave

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