So that the bad guys can't get to your data
How to Properly Destroy a Hard Drive – Tip Tuesday: Episode #006
The age of privacy may be coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean you should give up all your information voluntarily. Yet that’s what thousands of people do every day when they throw away an old computer.
Even if you think that hard drive is dead, you can still get all the data off it.
What can you do to make sure your tax return, social security number, and all that bank information is useless to the bad guy lurking around the electronics recycling depot? That’s what we’re going to talk about today.