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Have digital shredder, will travel

A Montreal company is offering a new data-erasing service designed to foil those dumpster drivers. The Digital Shredder is the flagship product of a Montreal company, Convergenet, lead by Ryk Edelson, a computer security expert.

A Montreal company is offering a new data-erasing service designed to foil those dumpster drivers. The Digital Shredder is the flagship product of a Montreal company, Convergenet, lead by Ryk Edelson, a computer security expert.

Their Northern Ontario agent is Sault Ste. Marie's Bob Bonnell.
This device erases hard drives beyond forensic recovery and done right at the customer's site.
The Digital Shredder is a home or office-based service is designed to discourage criminals who go fishing for hard drives salvaged from old CPU's. The data gathered from discarded hard drives is a lucrative black market business.

"If you're using a computer for personal banking at home, or if company has clients personalized information like credit card numbers, don't want anybody else to have it," said Bonnell.
In business, compliance laws and computer security are becoming all the rage and there are serious legal and financial implications for lost or stolen data.

Bonnell, who is drumming up business this winter, said prices range between $27 and $75 depending on the number of drives.
The box even works on photocopier and automatic banking machines. "A hard drive is a hard drive," said Bonnell.
On a company laptop, a hard drive can be erased and given to another employee and re-deployed again. It encourages recycling hard drives rather than dumping them in a landfill.
Bonnell said these shredding systems are the only ones recommended by the RCMP.

With such a large coverage area, Bonnell said the company expects to hire more agents as the business progresses.
For details go online at www.deadondemand.ca