Globalfoundries Inc.

Ronald Dwayne Martin

Ivan Matthew Milman

Kalpesh Hira

A network-based appliance includes a mechanism to erase data on the appliance's local storage. The appliance's normal system reset operation is overridden to enable a local user to place the appliance into a safe mode during which remote erasure of the storage is permitted, provided that mode is entered within a first time period following initiation of a system reset. If the appliance is placed in the mode within the time period, it can then receive commands to wipe the local storage. Once the safe mode is entered by detecting one or more actions of a local user, preferably the appliance data itself is wiped by another person or entity that is remote from the device. Thus, physical (local) presence to the appliance is necessary to place the device in the safe mode, while non-physical (remote) presence with respect to the appliance enables actual wiping of the storage device.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Ronald Dwayne Martin