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To everybody spending thought on this: Relax, nobody is interested in your porn collection.
by Entlin 16y ago
To everybody spending thought on this: Relax, nobody is interested in your porn collection.
- haribilalic 16y agoI've used such tools to wipe my hard drives before selling or donating used computers (although I would use them before disposing of a hard drive in any way, really). I have heard of people buying up used computers and hard drives and extracting saved passwords from them. A lot of people are smart enough to format it quickly, but not everyone will let (or know to) a computer sit for dozens of hours so that things might be wiped more securely.
- halfasleep 16y agoI generally recommend DBAN[1] for people who are disposing of old boxes. [1]http://www.dban.org/ http://www.dban.org/
- jws 16y agoI've had the experience where people agree to buy my broken computers for parts and the deal is done, until I mention that the "drives are wiped and ready to go". Then I never hear from them again. Granted, somehow visiting the craigslist site turns ordinary people into flakes, but the "wiped" statement correlates a bit too well with the vanishing interest.
- evgeny0 16y ago+1, but I'd stop mentioning it after the first time (unless of course you're just doing this as an experiment and aren't really interested in selling the stuff)