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Started by Augeas, May 07 2009 12:45 PM

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#1 OFFLINE   Augeas

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Posted 07 May 2009 - 12:45 PM

Sensitive information for shooting down intercontinental missiles as well as bank details and NHS records was found on old computers, researchers say.....

http://news.bbc.co.u...les/8036324.stm

They should have used well, what?

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Posted 07 May 2009 - 08:56 PM

Yea, I saw that on the news today. Pretty unbelievable they could be so stupid.
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Posted 07 May 2009 - 09:08 PM

One would think governments would know about getting rid of sensitive data, especially that which protects their country. Dumb!
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Posted 08 May 2009 - 01:23 AM

The only way to completely and irrevocably erase all the data on your old hard drive is to smash it into bits......even with a format and wipe data can still be found....;)

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Posted 08 May 2009 - 09:28 AM

View Post1984, on May 7 2009, 07:23 PM, said:

The only way to completely and irrevocably erase all the data on your old hard drive is to smash it into bits
Incineration would also work rather well.
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Posted 08 May 2009 - 11:30 AM

View PostAndavari, on May 8 2009, 05:28 AM, said:

Incineration would also work rather well.

In comes the environmentalists saying that burning hard drives adds to greenhouse gases! There's no win-win.
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Posted 08 May 2009 - 04:57 PM

View Postkmillerusaf, on May 8 2009, 12:30 PM, said:

In comes the environmentalists saying that burning hard drives adds to greenhouse gases! There's no win-win.

Maybe if all the environmentalists stopped travelling around to protest or stop using their computers to post dissatisfaction then they'd actually reduce their carbon footprint! :P
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Posted 08 May 2009 - 05:16 PM

View Postkmillerusaf, on May 8 2009, 05:30 AM, said:

In comes the environmentalists saying that burning hard drives adds to greenhouse gases! There's no win-win.
They can use the let off gas and vapor to power something. :lol:
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 01:14 PM

View PostDJpailo, on May 9 2009, 02:57 AM, said:

Maybe if all the environmentalists stopped travelling around to protest or stop using their computers to post dissatisfaction then they'd actually reduce their carbon footprint! :P

lol, top post :D
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Posted 16 May 2009 - 10:52 PM

View Postkmillerusaf, on May 8 2009, 06:30 AM, said:

In comes the environmentalists saying that burning hard drives adds to greenhouse gases! There's no win-win.

Notice Al Gore's winter global warming speech gets snowed out frequently... :lol:
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Posted 17 May 2009 - 12:20 AM

View Postcomper6, on May 16 2009, 04:52 PM, said:

Notice Al Gore's winter global warming speech gets snowed out frequently... :lol:
It's a conspiracy, it's all those snow machine doing it. :lol: The weather is like a yoyo, they can make all the predictions and whatnot but it's a wait and see type of thing.
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Posted 27 May 2009 - 04:48 PM

View Post1984, on May 8 2009, 01:23 AM, said:

The only way to completely and irrevocably erase all the data on your old hard drive is to smash it into bits......even with a format and wipe data can still be found....;)


Actually Dban will wipe it clean and unrecoverably. They have put it out to anyone who can recovery from a dban wipe, no one has yet. No need to destroy the Hard drive. That is taking it one step further, which isn't bad but unnecessary.

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Posted 14 July 2009 - 06:50 PM

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View Post1984, on May 7 2009, 07:23 PM, said:

The only way to completely and irrevocably erase all the data on your old hard drive is to smash it into bits......even with a format and wipe data can still be found....;)

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Posted 15 July 2009 - 06:36 AM

Eraser and DBAN are well known on here as we've recommended them before.

However what government is actually going to take the time to "recycle" a hard disk with such good freebies when they could buy another $120 hdd drive for the "low cost" of $2000.
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