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Data Still Left on Storage Devices for Sale
cluedweasel writes "According to a BBC story many people are still putting up their old PC's and storage devices for sale without taking basic precautions to ensure that confidential data is erased. The suggestion at the end of the story is to get a professional forensics firm to wipe your data or just destroy the item in question. With the low price of storage devices, the latter is probably preferable."
On the other hand, I always thought it was a good bonus for the custom when I sell a hard drive on eBay with my mp3 and pr0n collection still intact.
Then again... they probaby would see the reiserfs partition as "Unknown" in the Windows installer.
professional forensics firm to erase your hard drives? really?
how do I market myself as this and sell that service to people? sounds like a great article to whip up some Fear frenzy that we geeks can make good money on.
"Yup, I can safely eradicate your data and wipe that drive, no it's not easy, but that is why it costs $100.00.
thank you, no we dont accept personal checks."
adding that to my spyware cleaning racket and I can quit my job as a web programmer/IS manager.
This rocks, any way to get CNN to stir it up as well to help the fear factor in the general public?
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