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Rhodri Marsden: Must I attack my hard drive with a hammer?
The BBC posted a report yesterday on a study by Which? Computing magazine, with an eye-catching headline suggesting that the only way to be certain your old hard disk won't be trawled through by criminals and fraudsters is to smash it to pieces with a hammer. Or incinerate it. Having not seen the Which? study itself, I'm not sure that this was their final conclusion, or just a convenient extrapolation by the BBC to get people arguing about various high-security methods of deleting data. And hammers.
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Succesful first week for Turkey's Kurdish-language television channel
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