Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...

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You can just toss that old hard drive in a drawer, which is the cheapest way to be sure nobody will access it, but if you’d just like to be rid of it, I’d recommend destroying it. Jim Rossman / TNS I ...