Rixter wrote to knightwise <=-

One of the things I find frightening whenever I "secretly adopt some digi puppy's from the recycling-pound" is that you sometimes get very very personal insights into peoples lives. These things are often packed with haddrives filled to the brim with information that could lead to identity theft. I used to snoop around on some of those drives, but recently i've started to yank them out right away and secure-erase them. I don't even

wanna

know what is on there. Passwords, personal documents, scan of their socia security number, personal foto's, working email accounts ... (not to ment data from third parties).. Gives me the shivers.

Yeah - when I work on stuff for people, or myself, if it's 'trash'
(e-cycle bound) I will dismantle the hard drive and break the
platters. Maybe I should get in the habit of secure wipe instead
and keep those for short term backups?

That is a good point about either wiping or destroying a hard drive before discarding a personal computer. I have always pulled the hard drive and saved it when discarding dead pcs. If I cannot fix it that is. I have a hard drive reader to look at drives of any type. If the sectors are good I will use it or back it up on the replacement pc. Then destroy it if all else fails. I have files and data going back to 1986... I am regular with my backup policy. Thank you for a good post. Rixter

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I am bad for hanging on to things, just in case I might need them in the future. As far as the hard drives go I have actually used many of them as back up drives for personal and BBS related backups or outright drive replacement when needed. When the drives useful is obviously at an end I use a demagnetizer and then an old fashioned hammer. Lol.
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Rixter wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Yeah - when I work on stuff for people, or myself, if it's 'trash'
(e-cycle bound) I will dismantle the hard drive and break the
platters. Maybe I should get in the habit of secure wipe instead
and keep those for short term backups?

I am bad for hanging on to things, just in case I might need them in
the future.

I'm not as bad as I used to be... I used to keep EVERYTHING! :-)

Now if I were a tinkerer to the point of soldering my own boards
and such? That would be different, but I'm more of an assembler.
:-)

As far as the hard drives go I have actually used many of
them as back up drives for personal and BBS related backups or outright drive replacement when needed. When the drives useful is obviously at
an end I use a demagnetizer and then an old fashioned hammer. Lol.

That works too, but I usually, like I said, ismantle and break
the platters... I've been known to use them for target practice.
A nice green tip 5.56 will take one out too. :-)



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