Study: Wide Array of Private Data on Secondhand Drives, a Reminder to Discard With Discretion
Oct 15
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire performed a study examining secondhand hard disk drives and found they often contained data from their previous owners.
How to Demolish Old Hard Drive Data (keeping your data safe, the logical way)
Mar 24
If you have a computer that you are getting rid of you need to take special care of the data you have stored inside it. Whatever information you have saved on the hard drive inside: photos, documents, financial files, passwords, emails — personal information, does not simply go away if you hit delete or drop stuff in the Recycle Bin.
Ben Popken at NBC did a video showing some low-tech solutions to this problem. He trashes hard drives with everything from hammers and baseball bats, to submerging in water and burning with fire. Watch the video after the jump.
Misc: Live PageRank Add-on updated for Firefox 3.5
Jul 7
Do you love the new Firefox browser release 3.5, but one of your favorite add-ons – the live PageRank extension, is disabled after upgrading?
Misc: Live PageRank Add-on updated for Firefox 3
Jun 25
Now Updated for Firefox 3.5
See the latest post here
A handy tool that broke when FF3 was released. Thought we would share it out until developers make their updates.
Firefox Add-On: Live PageRank 0.9.5
Updated: June 25, 2008
Works With: Firefox 3.0
To Install:
- Simply open the file with...
