Burn any remaining pieces. Gather all the sensitive debris and store it in a safe, closed compartment until you have the fire burning again. Scatter the ashes.
Wait for the fire to go out, and for the ashes to cool to a safe temperature. Using a shovel, gather them in a bag that will not rip. If you have a yard, scatter the ashes evenly throughout your yard. It is also possible to use a small amount of ash in composting units so long as you did not use lighter fluid to make the fire. It is also beneficial to pour ash around the base of hardwood trees. Method 3. Gain access to a crosscut shredder. When shredding sensitive documents it is important to use a crosscut shredder as opposed to a more basic strip-cut shredder , because it produces thinner strips of paper.
This protects you from would-be thieves of this information from reconstructing the complete pages from the strips. Paper shredders can be purchased at office supply stores and are classified into six security levels based on the thinness of cut. One is the widest cut; six is the thinnest and approved for Top Secret government documents.
Check with your office manager and see if you can bring in your own documents for destruction. Shred the documents. Continue until all of your documents are done. If you have more documents than the machine can hold at one time, be sure to take the ribbons of paper out before continuing.
Hold the documents by the end so that there is distance between you and the mouth. Once the shredder has the paper within its grip, release the documents. Above all, protect the safety of your hands. Traditional shredders that cut paper into strips won't keep someone from putting it back together. Hand ripping isn't a good idea either, especially on small documents it takes 2 centimeters to find out a person's Social Security Number. Separate the pieces into separate bags.
Beyond reducing them to unrecognizable small pieces, this is one further security measure. Take a portion of each document and place them in separate bags. This way, any would be thieves cannot find matches within the same bag; they will have to sort through everything. Dispose of them on the scheduled day. You want to leave as little time as possible between when the garbage goes out and when it is collected. Ideally you will keep it inside until the day of collection, and bring it down just before the city employees arrive.
Method 4. Delete the documents. Locate all the files on your hard drive containing sensitive data. Right click and send them to the trash. Empty your trash. If there is no risk that someone will use more advanced techniques to retrieve your data, this is an acceptable and simple method.
Do not use this method if the sensitive information could be used to cause you harm or distress. Overwrite the hard drive. If you decide to choose this method, be advised it is semi-permanent and it may be impossible to recover the data in question. Three passes are considered standard by U. There are also programs like Eraser that allow you to manually overwrite specific files.
Degauss the hard drive. Degaussing refers to exposing magnet-based technology e. Although overwriting can potentially be reversed, the degaussing process causes permanent damage, and none of the data can be recovered. Be sure to back up anything you want to preserve onto an external hard drive or cloud storage. Do not operate a degausser if you have a pace maker, as it can cause damage to this important medical equipment.
Physically destroy the hard drive. The most complete method available is physical destruction. Hammering, high heat, and drilling are all acceptable methods. Whatever method you choose, first remove the hard drive from any outer framework. If hammering, apply extreme force directly on top of the hard drive. If drilling, ensure that you punch several holes directly through the drive.
If using heat e. When using a blowtorch, wear heat resistant gloves, as well as a protective face shield. It is safest to work over dirt or sand to prevent fires or explosions. While working with a hammer or drill, wear protective gloves and a face shield to protect yourself from flying debris. It is also possible to shoot holes through the hard drive with a gun.
Do not operate a firearm unless you are licensed to do so. Permanently delete emails. If so, delete these too. Clear your browser history. Many browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer have this option. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. If you frequently destroy sensitive documents, consider investing in a cross-cut shredder. They're more expensive, but they will save you time. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0. It takes two people to do this, but you can also burn the paper in a barbecue grill.
The fire keeps going if you keep lighting it every minutes and if you keep adding paper. It takes about minutes to burn a whole trash bag of paper. Use a metal stick to move the paper around, or else not all paper will be burnt. If something else catches on fire, have a garden hose ready, and have the second person spray it with water. When you are done have the second person spray it generously until it has a black and sticky texture. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0.
Another option is to store the documents in a safe place and burn them annually or watch for community shredding which can be free or for a very small fee sometimes the proceeds go to charity the nice thing about the community program is they can destroy CDs, tapes and sometimes even hard drives. As always, be careful when using fire. Helpful 12 Not Helpful 6. I think people are worried about taking this approach after seeing in Movies and on the news that data can still be recovered. For these reasons, you need to use a special software program to securely wipe your data.
Once created, you would boot your machine from the DBAN media, follow the instructions, and your drive would be wiped. It would take a little while as every sector of the drive would be over-written. Of course, the website is trying to push you to pay for their commercial product rather than downloading the original DBAN for free.
This option is more for businesses as there is usually some cost involved. In my professional capacity, several times a year I have the need to destroy the contents of around hard drives. I approached a company advertising that they shred hard drives for 6GBP each 7. The whole process is quite impressive to watch, turning the drives from heavy, robust, pieces of spinning metal into tiny fragments, a few mm in diameter. If you have contracts stating that you must keep data secure, this will likely keep all stakeholders happy.
On a computer it is usually for the desktop, while on a mobile phone it is usually the background for the 'home' or 'idle' screen. Though most devices come with a default picture, users can usually change it to custom files of their choosing. A mobile wallpaper is a computer wallpaper sized to fit a mobile device such as a mobile phone, personal digital assistant or digital audio player. The height is often greater than or equal to the width.
Wallpapers can typically be downloaded at no cost from various websites for modern phones such as those running Android, iOS, or Windows Phone operating systems. Modern smartphones allow users to use photos from the web; or photographs captured with a phone's camera can be set as a wallpaper. Wallpaper images are usually copyrighted as many other digital images found on the Internet.
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