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What Not To Do With Your Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-not-put-in-mouth dept.

Tiny Tim writes "Stupidity strikes! A data recovery company has revealed the dumbest data disasters it's confronted this year — including rotting bananas, smelly socks and a university professor's foolhardy application of WD-40."

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  1. Privacy aspect by tomalpha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's interesting about this story is how easy it might be for *others* to recover your data after you think you've wiped it.

  2. STOP POSTING ADS by rbanzai · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "OnTrack claims it rescued the data in all cases. Jim Reinert, senior director of software and services for the company, said it pays to have your damaged hard drive or storage device evaluated because the chances of recovery are good."

    This "slashvertisement" crap has gone too far.