Only way to be sure you don't leak confidential data is to destroy the hardware, companies like this have been destroying hard drives for a long time, they hardly ever resell them, with new laptops there is no separate hard drive + there is other sensitive data outside of that.

They could organise to sell the computers without the motherboards to repair stores possibly, that way people with broken screens may be able to swap in a motherboard etc, but i doubt the recycler wants to do that work.

If the recycling company sold these locked computers instead of destroying them to a bad actor who sites on them hoping someone finds a way around this lock they would sued into non existance.

Sorry you don't understand corporate security, but no amount of talking yourself in circle will make your view popular

Apple devices are more recyclable than most on the market

Companies / Users can lock an Apple device to ensure it can't be used if stolen (even if reset / formatted)

The recycling company was asked to destroy these devices by a company but they are complaining that they could sell them instead

If I were asking a company to destroy the hardware and read this, they would lose my buisness immediately

Its not Apples choice, stop pretending it is

I agree, I watch it if I catch it on TV, its always entertaining but there is too many for me to keep up to date on it or know which season / episode it came from

If you looked at a mirror 10 light years away, you would see 20 years in the past

I have heard similar ideas that if a time machine was created, that it would only be able to travel back to the point it was switched on

So since we have not invented it yet, nobody is travelling back this far

My actual view is that we are on the verge of extinction and the aliens are watching and waiting so they can come in and grind the planet up for its resources

In South Park the time phones were only allowed to be used for prank calls to the past to prevent changing the future

Perhaps society in the future can follow basic rules

Perhaps the future is perfect and they don't want to risk changing anything even if it was an atrocity

Also we don't know what all these UAP sightings are, they could be observers from the future /s

Plenty is safe, Discovery and its CEO took on a company bleeding capital and have cut the unprofitable parts of the buisness

HBO is safe, any show that is marketable is safe, they have signed contracts with James Gun to lead the DC division which seems to be a popular decision

It should be a positive that Warner Brothers is being run by a media company that knows what it is doing rather than AT&T

BBC just purchased the rights to air it in the UK so its probably safe