In the movies you might see the secret agent or the terrorist breaking into a secured server room and using a high-powered electro magnet to wipe all the records clean in one fell swoop. Or better yet, the systems admin who can punch in a few commands and erase the entire network, casting all of the server’s information into digital oblivion. In reality, a hacker would probably just need to dig through a landfill and take your hard drive home with them to copy onto their own server, giving them all the time in the world to sort through your data and your clients’ information at their leisure.
The movies give us a false sense of security when it comes to ensuring data security. In reality, the method isn’t all that sexy and it certainly isn’t all that difficult. When information is written onto a mountable volume, the physical media–i.e. the hard disk–is affected by a magnetic device. It creates “stops” in the surface of the metal. These tiny areas write binary code. It is a system of compiling information, an alphabet of sorts, with only two letters instead of 26. The series of “on or off” stops is what creates the information on the drive. Even if the device is “erased” the recognition of the stops in the system have just been removed. Sort of like taking a textbook and pulling out the table of contents, page numbers, and index at the back. In reality, the rest of the book is still there!
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This is why using a hard disk crusher is the only 100% sure way of disposing of unwanted storage media without the risk of someone getting their hands on your information. Crushing and mangling the code’s metal disk ensures nobody can ever access that information again. In a lot of ways, it’s actually cooler to think of someone crushing a hard drive with a hard disk crusher than it is just to put some mystery machine on it and pushing the “erase” button.
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The reality of losing information to the wrong people is worse than what any fiction can begin to describe. So contact us today if you want to learn more about the best way to keep your information secure, through using a hard disk crusher!’
