{"id":566,"date":"2004-01-02T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2018-08-09T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T22:17:05","slug":"566","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/02\/566\/","title":{"rendered":"Step Five: <i>Classified<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"new\">Fark<\/a> led me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcentral.com\/articles\/komando\/126.asp\" target=\"new\">set of helpful tips<\/a> about how to handle giving your old computer to someone else.  Here&#8217;s a summary of what Kim Komando, noted radio computer &#8220;expert,&#8221; suggests as steps or protocols for what you can do to safeguard personal information you might have on the P.C.:<\/p>\n<ul><i><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don&#8217;t want a big hassle? Give the computer to a trusted employee, friend or family member.\n<li>Reformat the hard drive and re-install the operating system.\n<li>Buy software and overwrite the disk, again and again and again.\n<li>You&#8217;re totally paranoid, so get out the acetylene torch.<\/ol>\n<p><\/i><\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, Komando?  That&#8217;s all you have?  What about step 5?<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know what Protocol 5 is, you&#8217;re not <i>totally<\/i> paranoid.<\/p>\n<p>I guess not everyone can afford an atom-smasher in the basement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fark led me to a set of helpful tips about how to handle giving your old computer to someone else. Here&#8217;s a summary of what Kim Komando, noted radio computer &#8220;expert,&#8221; suggests as steps or protocols for what you can do to safeguard personal information you might have on the P.C.: Don&#8217;t want a big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22479,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/22479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}