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Getting Rid of Your Computer?

Time to sell or donate that old computer?

• Erased Hard Drives Can Bite You - USA Today
  Imagine this chilling scenario: You buy a new PC and donate the old one to charity, knowing you've protected your privacy by deleting all your old files...Yet you later discover you're a victim of identity theft
  
  
• Skeletons On Your Hard Drive - CNET News
  Tax records, resumes, photo albums - the modern hard drive can keep increasingly larger volumes of information. But that can be a problem when it comes to effectively erasing the devices.
  
  
• Protect Yourself Before Getting Rid of That Old Home Computer - NASA
  Unless you take the proper precautions, getting rid of your home computer might be your personal introduction to one of the fastest growing crimes in America - Identity-theft.
  
  
• Hard Drives Dumped; Information Isn't - The Mercury News
  Whether you recycle your old computer, sell it, give it away or take it to the dump, you may also be giving away personal information, even if you think you erased everything on your hard drive.
  
  
• Harvesting Old Hard Drives - The Associated Press
  So, you think you have cleaned all your personal files from that old computer hard drive you are selling? A pair of MIT graduate students suggests you think again.
  
  
• WipeDrive Can Take the Hard Drive Data Away - CRN
  Formatting hard drive data on a PC does not totally erase hard drive data, according to CRN Test Center engineers. Many times files are not erased, leaving the previous owner or business institution vulnerable to an invasion of privacy.
  
  
• File Deleted? Not Really - Deseret News
  You deleted a file, and then you emptied the recycle bin. But is it really gone?
  
  
• Hard Drives Exposed - PC World
  Properly sanitize a hard drive before giving away or reselling a computer requires only a small investment of time and an inexpensive disk-erasing tool
  
  

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