The act of destroying something, or the fact of being destroyed. Synonyms are: demolition, devastation.
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How do you destroy an old hard drive?
How do you destroy an old hard drive? To be clear, unlike questions Secure hard drive disposal: How to erase confidential information and How can I reliably erase all information on a hard drive? I do ...
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Is it enough to only wipe a flash drive once?
According to the documentation for the "diskscrb" command for wiping conventional hard drives: http://www.forensics-intl.com/diskscrb.html
"Conforms to and exceeds the Government Standard set ...
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How can I reliably erase all information on a hard drive?
As storage technologies change over time, using different encodings and remappings to deal with sector errors, the best way to permanently erase/wipe/shred data changes also.
Methods for flash drives ...
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Getting rid of a large quantity of paper
Say you were in charge of getting rid of a large quantity of paper - up to 1,000 in a row. It can't be used as scratch paper because it contains confidential information. It also can't be outsourced ...
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Best method of retiring hard drives
What are some typical ways you guys retire hard drives? We have a hard drive that won't mount anymore (makes clicking sounds when it tries to mount). The data on it isn't necessarily sensitive (no ...
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I'm leaving my job and want to erase as many personal details etc. as possible; any tips?
Obviously this is very open-ended. But, I'm just paranoid about people going through everything on my laptop after I leave my job. Here are the things I'm planning to do:
Completely wipe all browser ...
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How can I remotely wipe the contents of a Linux Laptop if its been stolen?
I am currently investigating using Linux Laptops for my development team. We currently run Windows. The one advantage that keeps coming up for Windows over Linux from a system administration / ...
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A computing environment that saves no data
I want to use laptop which doesn’t save any data, history, passwords anywhere in it. All state information should be destroyed once it turned off or rebooted without removing my ability to use the OS ...
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Erasing a hard-disk, encrypting it as alternative?
I was pondering about this, sometimes people ask me to erase data on their drive. So I use a shredding program, which takes a long time. However what if instead of shredding all the files, I'd just ...
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How can files be deleted in a HIPAA-compliant way?
Any material I've come up with for data destruction standards relate to completely wiping (ATA Secure Erase) and physically destroying hard drives, but I haven't been able to find much about standards ...
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Secure hard drive disposal: How to erase confidential information
When it comes to disposing of hardware that may contain PII, confidential, or other sensitive material, how do you determine what needs special handling? What process do you use?
I'd like to expand ...
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What particular devices and processes are available to destroy hard drives, per DoD 5220.22-M?
DoD 5220.22-M specifies the following methods for destruction of hard drives with classified data:
Disintegrate
Incinerate
Pulverize
Shred
Melt
I've seen shredders of the type that might be used ...
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Overwriting hard drive to securely delete a file?
I am working on a computer that I am not allowed to install new software on. It does not have secure delete software installed. Suppose I have a file (or files) that are sensitive that I'd like to ...
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How do you erase a Blackberry without having direct access to the server?
I have a Blackberry with no access to the BIS or BES server that managed it.
How does one erase and reset the device to defaults?
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Sensitive information I don't want my work to backup
Can this be done safely?
I want to print 2 pdf’s containing personal/banking information from a computer at work. It has CrashPlan Pro running and I don’t want a copy of the files to be made that I ...
