Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Is removing hard drive enough to secure old laptop before selling it or giving away?

I have an old Sony Vaio laptop, which I have previously used to store sensitive data (cryptographic private keys of certain value). Now I am not using the laptop and I will store it, sell it or give it away.


I have already removed the old hard drive. Is that enough to ensure that the private keys cannot be found or would I also need to do something about BIOS, RAM, etc?

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