After reading Remove Sensitive Data Before You Sell an Old PC , Joel Edillon wants to know if it’s a good idea to physically destroy a hard drive instead of wiping it with special software. I wouldn’t ...

You are on a U.S. military aircraft, transporting hard drives with important, classified information, when you collide with another plane and are forced to land near an enemy intelligence agency.

Regarding “How to destroy a hard drive in five seconds”: If you go here, you will find that all you have to do to wipe out a high-end government drive is move a jumper on the drive as per “Supporting ...

If i have some sensitive informations (just credit card info, social security, etc. nothing illegal) on my hard drive, how can i permanently destroy it. I mean i want it so that no one could possibly ...

Last week I introduced you to the new Windows Firewall, included as part of the new Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 RC2. This week I am going to discuss the destruction of sensitive data when ...

IIRC I wrote zeros and ones to the sole IBM DeathStar I RMA'd to Hitachi. As antidumb points out, who the hell would have the time - much less the boss who would tolerate that waste of time - to ...

In a conversation I had with hard drive maker Western Digital, vice president Gary Meister acknowledged that it’s possible to create a virus that attacks the microcode in drives from Western digital ...

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Q In a recent column, you wrote about cleaning off a hard drive with an "erase" program before getting rid of the computer. But I've been told that none of those programs really cleans up the hard ...

The Marion County Sheriff’s Office will hand over a copy of the evidence it cloned from devices seized during a raid on a local newspaper and then will destroy the hard drive, the paper’s attorney ...