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Benefits Associated With Data Destruction by Richard Conard
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Computers
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You may have heard the phrase that we have become a throw-away society and you most likely associated it with our general wasteful habits. However, the truth is that the speed of advancement in technology and especially IT is so fast that people have to change their electronic gadgets many years before their expiry dates. You only need to compare the computers and other electronic gadgets that you bought only a few years ago in term of size, speed, and functionality to appreciate the rate at which the said changes are taking place.
Just think about your computer, laptop, or mobile phone and ask yourself how many updates you have had since; what happened to your old computer and did you remember to do any data destruction before you gave it away? When most people upgrade their old computers and other equipment, selling the older one becomes a good idea because it brings in some extra income. You only need to check on online selling sites such as eBay to see the number of used laptops and PC’s that are being sold by their previous owners. However, many of these computers are potential identity theft cases because most people don’t remember to use data destruction services.
Contrary to popular belief, formatting your hard drive or deleting your files does not remove the information from your hard drive. All that happens is that it simply allows the drive to create more space for you to write more files. With enough skill, someone can easily recover any personal and financial data that is contained in any computer hard drive. Apart from the advances in technology that necessitates upgrading electronic equipment, the techniques used by cyber criminals have also advanced and they are able to obtain any such information.
The need to do data destruction before disposing of your old computers is especially important for individuals but especial so for businesses. However, due to the hurry to get back some money when doing upgrades, most companies forget the important element of data destruction and hard drive shredding. There have been high-profile incidences where corporate, government and military entities have lost very confidential data simply because they gave it away together with their old computers; there are massive costs associated with such breaches, leave alone the cost of bad publicity.
If you are going to consider Chicago computer recycling or sell you obsolete computers, regardless whether you are an individual or a company, you must do everything to ensure that all your data is destroyed. Even if you don’t have any experience on exactly how this needs to be done, you shouldn’t get worried because there are companies that are professional in offering data destruction services.
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