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 ...

Question : I need to dispose of my old computer but I’m told that I need to have all of my data removed. We’ve deleted what we can but apparently there is still retrievable data on the hard drive ?

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 ...

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 ...

In the first installment of Why Information Must Be Destroyed I discussed how not discarding worthless hard copy documents, even though they appear to have no value is a security risk. While this is ...

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 ...

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.