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Re:Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade sec... by daviesliu on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:18AM (#18740885)
I have done the things before. Before returning the work laptop to employer on the last day, I cleaned out all the company stuff to left my personal things (this is my only laptop with my personal stuff in it), then move them out and clean them finally.

Is this common?

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Re:Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade sec... by CydeWeys on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:40AM (#18740974)
I've always done this. I never leave any important business files on my local PC, for obvious reasons. But there's all sorts of personal stuff on there (mostly from Web browsing). So nuke it all before turning it in. They're going to re-image it before giving it to the next person anyway.
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Re:Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade sec... by ams6110 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:16PM (#18741433)
Yes I have always DBANed my work computer on the last day of a job. Haven't done that since SSDs so not sure it is as effective anymore.
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