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August 11, 2006, 02:36 PM ET
Scrub Harder, Please
College professors—or, for that matter, anyone with a computer at work—would be wise to find out what happens to their hard drives on the way from the office desk to the scrap heap. After all, many employers do a woeful job of scrubbing data from soon-to-be-discarded machines, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Glamorgan.
The researchers sifted through more than 300 secondhand hard drives and found (amid a good deal of pornography) a wealth of company secrets and sensitive personal data. According to VNUNet, more than one in five of the computers tossed aside by businesses could easily be traced back to the company that had owned the machine. —Brock Read
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