You’ll never guess what the Beeb’s Real Story team found on cheap hard drives they bought in Nigeria… Second thought, you’ve probably already guessed.
Bank account numbers, user names passwords, addresses, and everything else people store on hard drives.
Worst part is, dutiful Brits handed the treasure over turned in used computers at government recycling centers.
What can I say? The recyclers made the most of taxpayers’ money.
One of the victims declared himself “gob smacked.”
This can’t happen if you wipe your drive clean before you releasing it into the wild.
Obtaining such peace-of-mind with a commercial program will set you back around US$40. Or you can download Darik’s Boot and Nuke at sourseforge for free.
If wiping hard disks with software strikes you as not thorough enough, drag out your crab-hammer, beat your hard disk to smithereens, then enjoy the shards with shrimp sauce and a nice red wine.
And don’t forget to send me a photo.
You’ll leave me gob smacked.
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