Data leakage via discarded hard drives …
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“Did you know that there’s most likely a hard disk in your office copier and that it stores every image? #wheresyouroldcopier ?
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“Crikey! RT @mikejulietbravo: Did you know that there’s a hard disk in your office copier and it stores every image? #wheresyouroldcopier ?
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“@mikejulietbravo @GabrielleNYC heard about this but never took it serious. does the smaller 4-in-1 printer scanner copier also have HD?
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That tip about the COPIER is a shock to many … many never even thought that the copier had a HD in it. Think of all the things you’ve ever copied! Where are those images now?
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“TIPS: Selling/dumping a computer? Take the disk out. New ones are cheap. : Replacing a copier? Get certificate of destruction for hard disk
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“If you want a data-hit – go to your local rubbish tip and look at the Hard Disks of the abandoned PCs. Oodles of it there. #DATAIDIOTS
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“.@lucyinldn : the scrapyard is the collecting hovel for much of the world’s data eh?
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Some comments about how people “in the know” deal with the disk matter ….
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“@mikejulietbravo I use a 7lb lump hammer to securely dispose of old hard drives!! Gets rid of aggression too!!
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“@mikejulietbravo I never throw hard drives away, too much data stored on them, that most people think they have deleted, but they have not.
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“@mikejulietbravo I take great pleasure in taking a hammer and screwdriver to them
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“@mikejulietbravo Extract & physically destroy. Club-hammer & stone-chisel. “Now *that’s* a proper re-format…” Great fun!
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“TIPS: two things need pointing out on data destruction: 1) when you think you might have wiped the data, you probably haven’t. And …..
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“#datadestruction … 2) – Smashing the drive to smithereens is almost a complete solution to the dilemma, with ashes scattered at sea
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“@mikejulietbravo “Delete” doesn’t erase data, only the directory entry. Full format required, and even then, Ghosts can be left, can be read
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“@mikejulietbravo Molten Metal is the only true hard drive data destruction
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“@mikejulietbravo @spritzdekor Perhaps, but did you make a backup ? Need to destroy these too!
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“@garethbrown : I’m assuming we are keeping the data and trashing the device in all of this
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I asked David Byrne if he’d heard of a company with a technology similar to one of his own, based in New England …
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“@mikejulietbravo no don’t know them. I like these guys http://t.co/hRcKp931
Tip up with a truck that has a grinder in the back. HDD = dust -
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Lets keep this rolling and see if we can add to the “crowdnous” – it’s useful for the novice and it brings those “in the know” together.Tweet me @mikejulietbravo with hashtag #datadead
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