Check Hard Drive Before Throwing Computer
Check Your Hard Drive Before Throwing Away your Computer
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ity theft seriously? One sees discarded computer alongside the road and it’s surprising how many have hard drives in them containing financial information any con artist will drool over.
They’ll check for online checking account or banking information, credit card information and anything useful for identity theft. If you decide to sell your computer to someone less fortunate or give it to charity, what if that someone decides to mine your information?
What if your financial information was jobbed out into the hands of a thief? If you computer is fat with personal information from applications like Microsoft Office, QuickBooks as well as online checking/banking information, credit card trails, you may be open to identity theft. Small and mid-sized companies need security and procedures in place to intercept hard drive data theft. Do yourself a favor, before putting a computer out on the curb, take out the hard drive.
I’ve heard of drives being recovered from an inferno that reached 1700 degrees Fahrenheit, drives sunken at the bottom of a river or lake for days, having been crushed beyond recognition, even reconstructed after being cut into pieces. Physically, if you sandpaper, sandblast or grind the platters, subject it to extremely high heat over 1700 degrees Fahrenheit or expose it to a strong electro magnet you might be in good shape. Hydrochloric (muriatic) acid will burn your hard drive.
Put it in a plastic bucket outside in a well ventilated area. Let it sit there for a number of hours. Or you can put the hard drive in a vise and attack it with a grinder reducing it to powder. Some say formatting the drive then writing over it with alternating patterns of 1 and 0′s at least 6 times should make any old data unrecoverable.
The Department of Defense, concerned about eliminating classified computer files, has established a standard titled DOD 5220.22-M. This standard can usually be met by overwriting the specified file with random data, five-to-seven times. Here is the link http://www.killdisk.com/dod.htm to the process.
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Check Your Hard Drive Before Throwing Away your Computer / Author: Georg E.