On 7/20/2012 12:46 PM, clipka wrote:

> Quiz: If you had highly sensitive data on your hard drive, and needed to
> erase it for sure - would you rather trust this alleged fact, or have
> the erasing software write random numbers just in case?

Why are you disposing of a drive that still works?  In every 
organization I've worked for, especially the military ones with scads of 
sensitive information to manage, a drive was kept (and used) for as long 
as it was operational.  We simply couldn't afford to let one go if it 
was still useful.

For most people, the only sensitive information on their drives is the 
passwords to their on-line activities.  You protect those by changing them.

Regards,
John

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