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Data Still Left on Storage Devices for Sale

Posted by Zonk on from the one-one-zero-one-zero-zero-one-one-zero-one dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Not only good drive but also bad drives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes but the slashdot tinfoil crowd believes that their data still isn't safe until you overwrite it 15 times with random bits.