IDG Contributor Network: Deletion is not destruction: ensuring the permanent removal of data

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Some words of warning to all armchair data security “experts:” The Delete button is not a substitute for destruction; it no more eliminates data than a pink eraser removes magic marker, or a magic wand has the power to do anything more than — to ever be anything more than — a cheap prop.

And yet, these same people furiously press that button, in an attempt at some kind of false self-confidence.

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