On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:03:12 -0600 (CST), you said:
At 05:58 PM 3/30/98 -0800, you wrote:
I'm curious to know how people deal with old
data found on systems
they rescue/restore. The question was put in my mind recently by
The way I see it, if they want to make sure the data doesn't get out, they
need to delete files.
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Yes, but: (It's one of those nights...) MANY folks have no clue about
where their files are. A friend routinely corners me at church with a
story about downloading a file and then *poof* it's gone. (She wants
me to tell her where it is!)
I recently got a computer from a property management company with all
rentals/leases/evictions/etc. still there. Boring, even the software,
so I reformatted the hard drive.
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Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.