Wiping, Degaussing, or Shredding? What Actually Destroys the Data on a Retired Hard Drive
There is a closet in most offices. Inside it: three laptops from employees who left in 2021, a desktop tower nobody wants to be responsible for, a stack of external drives, and a couple of servers that were pulled during the last upgrade. Everyone knows the equipment should go. Nobody wants to be the person who authorized it walking out the door. That hesitation is well founded. Every one of those devices likely holds recoverable customer records, employee data, financial