mikeinjersey
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I was having an argument with my sister the other day about Deleting / Shredding documents and what can and cannot be recovered.
She is getting a new computer and throwing out the one thats 12 years old. I told her you have to physically destroy the harddrive first or anyone can hack out passwords and other personal info from it.
The way i've been told is that nothing is ever deleted from your computer. Everything remains on the disk unless you physically destroy it. (hammer / fire or whatever)
And that no matter how many times you shred a document, it could always be recovered.
For instance, I was just using Mcafee QuickClean. And it gives you the option to shred as many as 10 times over. But this is useless, is it not?
A funny red warning occurs when you select the Shred option -
"WARNING : Shredded documents will not be able to be recovered"
So do you think this is true ? Does shredding really work ? Im sure any professional hacker could analyse the disk and get info from it. no ?
Any help straightening out this mess would be great.
She is getting a new computer and throwing out the one thats 12 years old. I told her you have to physically destroy the harddrive first or anyone can hack out passwords and other personal info from it.
The way i've been told is that nothing is ever deleted from your computer. Everything remains on the disk unless you physically destroy it. (hammer / fire or whatever)
And that no matter how many times you shred a document, it could always be recovered.
For instance, I was just using Mcafee QuickClean. And it gives you the option to shred as many as 10 times over. But this is useless, is it not?
A funny red warning occurs when you select the Shred option -
"WARNING : Shredded documents will not be able to be recovered"
So do you think this is true ? Does shredding really work ? Im sure any professional hacker could analyse the disk and get info from it. no ?
Any help straightening out this mess would be great.