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PSA: PROPERLY WIPE all hard drives you sell

Syntaxvgm
By Syntaxvgm
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i'd save the nudes

I think those are things that certain sites *cough* will buy. Just a stranger's nudes, kind of a weird fetish, but people pay.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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I think those are things that certain sites *cough* will buy. Just a stranger's nudes, kind of a weird fetish, but people pay.

This doens't seem to have any. Don't really care too look. I only scanned 5% of the hard drive before disconnecting and found a ton of personal info.

I don't sell people's shit. I want to prevent this very thing.

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A drive I got in a goodwill PC had literally 7 years of diary entries regarding this guy and his autistic kid, and military records, and a bunch of tax info. Was too lazy to dig deeper.

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This doens't seem to have any. Don't really care too look. I only scanned 5% of the hard drive before disconnecting and found a ton of personal info.

I don't sell people's shit. I want to prevent this very thing.

No, I was just making a statement, not a suggestion. I commend you for your effort for going out of your way to help people like this.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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dban = party van

PEWDIEPIE DONT CROSS THAT BRIDGE

 

 

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I usualy let windows run a full format, but I don't know how secure it is. (I think it writes 0 once)

I did not care much, since the only disks I sold were just storage for raw video.

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I really hate it when I am fixing someones computer and there is a huge stash of porn on the hard drive. :(  :blink:  :unsure:  :wacko:

You might not want to fix my computer... Wait I can fix it myself. Yeah just forget what I said.

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So here comes the question: How do we properly wipe HDDs?

 

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