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What happens to information when it's no longer necessary? If you're concerned with cybersecurity, you should destroy it.
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Data destruction makes content stored in files, physical drives, or virtual systems unreadable and unrecoverable. There are three main techniques: physical destruction, overwriting, or degaussing. Getting rid of a device before destroying its data can lead to bad actors retrieving and selling the data. Destruction is the most secure way of dealing with unwanted data.