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To Erase or Not to Erase? There are several levels of hard drive security erasure and many reasons to want information destroyed. Every hard drive redistributed by FREE GEEK Michiana receives a basic level of security erasure. Drives that are recycled are disassembled first. A disassembled drive is worthless to all casual snoops and to all but a few professional snoops. The Major Leagues of Security If you or your company want a higher degree of security, we will provide it for you. FREE GEEK Michiana asks for a donation for each hard drive we wipe clean. A good security erasure is 3-4 passes over the entire hard drive with special software. We wouldn't expect a Bill Gates sized donation for that. CIA or Department of Defense level security takes more time, 22-35 passes with special software. So we ask for a larger donation per unit. Hard Drive Scrubbing Software If you want to scrub your hard drive clean before donating it to FREE GEEK Michiana, try these Open Source programs. References Old Hard Drives Yield Data Bonanza - C/NET news.com Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices. Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat. Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory - Peter Gutmann. Encryption and Security Related Resources - Peter Gutmann How You Can Help FREE GEEK Michiana needs computer systems to refurbish and distribute. Please drop off your donated equipment at the:
Remember there is a $15 recycling fee for all monitors, no exceptions. FREE GEEK Michiana accepts whatever computer equipment you bring us. However, if your computer equipment is older than a Pentium or Mac PowerPC, or, if it is broken, we appreciate a cash donation to cover processing. Truthfully we always appreciate a cash donation! Page updated: Sun Aug 27 12:23:02 EST 2006
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