When you give a computer away, or move to a new computer, chances are you’re keen enough to delete all of your old information and files off the hard drive. Maybe you’re even alert enough to re-install the computer’s operating system or to ‘refresh’ the hard drive image from a restore disc. What you might not realize, is just how easy it is for the next owner of your computer to recover everything you thought you’d deleted…

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