Hello, i have always believed that if you wipe your hard drive your banking details were wiped off totally, unless you have the software to recover it of course. That software i understand is limited to professionals, ie: Police, Banks, etc, so my details were in safe hands. I also understand that Banks have very strong magnets to safely erase their data, those kinds of magnets as i understand it, are in the hands of Banks and financial companies only.
Then i watched the news just a few days ago, it referred to the Daily Express, whereby the government told them they must wipe all of the Wiki leaks information they were holding on their computers. The government also sent certain police techies to make sure the sensitive data was properly wiped. I imagine that it would have been secret service that over saw the operation, since the government said that the Wiki leak info could be detrimental to British security.
The point that interested me the most was that it was said, that the Express had to not only wipe their hard drives, but also wipe their motherboards, as information was stored on chips on motherboards that are directly readable, as i understood it up to that point, i never knew that info was also stored on the mother board, is this general knowledge or am i the only one who never knew about PC's storing all data on the motherboard.
I always considered that i knew computers quite well until the news story, so i would like to know if anyone else was as sadly lacking in PC knowledge as my self.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Then i watched the news just a few days ago, it referred to the Daily Express, whereby the government told them they must wipe all of the Wiki leaks information they were holding on their computers. The government also sent certain police techies to make sure the sensitive data was properly wiped. I imagine that it would have been secret service that over saw the operation, since the government said that the Wiki leak info could be detrimental to British security.
The point that interested me the most was that it was said, that the Express had to not only wipe their hard drives, but also wipe their motherboards, as information was stored on chips on motherboards that are directly readable, as i understood it up to that point, i never knew that info was also stored on the mother board, is this general knowledge or am i the only one who never knew about PC's storing all data on the motherboard.
I always considered that i knew computers quite well until the news story, so i would like to know if anyone else was as sadly lacking in PC knowledge as my self.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
