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Your Old Hard Drive Is a Criminal's Gold Mine

Whether we're throwing away an old computer, selling it to a friend or just replacing its aging hard drive, many of us are improperly erasing our sensitive personal data, if we're even bothering to erase it at all! These are the findings of a study performed by a multi-national coalition of research teams from U.K. teleco BT, the University of Glamorgan in Wales, the University in Perth in ...