You can destroy a hard drive by wiping its contents and disassembling its parts for ultimate security.

You are on a U.S. military aircraft, transporting hard drives with important, classified information, when you collide with another plane and are forced to land near an enemy intelligence agency.

Question : I need to dispose of my old computer but I’m told that I need to have all of my data removed. We’ve deleted what we can but apparently there is still retrievable data on the hard drive ?

Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems and ...

Q In a recent column, you wrote about cleaning off a hard drive with an "erase" program before getting rid of the computer. But I've been told that none of those programs really cleans up the hard ...

Last week I introduced you to the new Windows Firewall, included as part of the new Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 RC2. This week I am going to discuss the destruction of sensitive data when ...