You might all recall the story in the media about a month ago concerning a study by MIT graduate students on the security risk of information available on old hard drives. They bought hundreds of old hard drives (many on eBay) and found a lot of financial information left on them or easily recovered on them. One point the student and author of the study (appearing in a new publication by IEEE?) was that every OS should be made with a better way of un-installing programs/files/etc. That would be a nice improvement in a GUI: something that would at least simply do the file removing even though the magnetic memory might still be there. It would be nice not to have to hunt around for remnants of a program. Any comments? Anyone more familiar with this study? Donald
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