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| Resources > Mac Privacy Sites |
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Erasing your Hard Drive
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Why Erase?
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Beware of Data Dumpster Divers "Some 30 percent of businesses in the UK leave data, some of it sensitive, on their PCs when they dispose of them..."
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Dead disks yield live information "Identity thieves are gleaning personal information from scrapped computers. Peter Warren reports on just how insecure our sensitive data really is"
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Deleted files can be recovered "Many computer users, including some who should know better, are unaware that deleted files can be recovered — undeleted — and can yield information which can be used against the person who deleted them. This information can be as common as a deleted email message or as important as sensitive business records or government transactions.."
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| How to Erase Data |
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Precautions When Selling, Trading, or Sending a PC to Salvage or to a Repair Shop "When a University Microcomputer is sent to University Salvage and Surplus, or transferred between departments, sent for repair, or otherwise disposed of, such sensitive data on any related media should be permanently and securely overwritten or destroyed."
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Privacy Articles
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Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory by Peter Gutmann "To gain access to sensitive data, one avenue of attack is the recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media or random-access memory. This paper covers some of the methods available to recover erased data and presents schemes to make this recovery significantly more difficult." |
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