Hard Drive Data Destruction 'Crucial'
There are plenty of articles in the news about data that has been recovered from old machines. In some cases council info from an old PC, phone numbers from old phones and photographs from old disks.
The only way to stop fraudsters stealing information from old computer hard drives is by destroying them completely, a study has found.
Which? Computing magazine recovered 22,000 "deleted" files from eight computers purchased on eBay.
Freely available software can be used to recover files that users think they have permanently deleted... [Read rest of article at BBC News ]
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