{"id":9561,"date":"2006-06-05T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/06\/05\/all-your-hard-drive-are-belong-to-whom.html"},"modified":"2006-06-05T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T17:36:07","slug":"all_your_hard_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/05\/all_your_hard_d.html","title":{"rendered":"All your Hard Drive are belong to &#8230; whom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/wlwt\/20060601\/lo_wlwt\/9303216\" target=\"_blank\">this fill you with confidence<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A year ago, Henry and Roma Gerbus took their computer to Best Buy in Springfield Township to have its hard drive replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Gerbus said Best Buy assured him the computer&#8217;s old hard drive &#8212; loaded with personal information &#8212; would be destroyed.  &#8220;They said rest assured. 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