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US 2007/0192869 A1Published application
Sense and respond RFID disk purge for computing devices
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorSteven Garfinkle
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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorSteven Garfinkle
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A system, method and computer program product for purging contents of a data storage device provided in a computing device. The system is an RFID-based system comprising: an RFID device provided in the computing device and adapted for receiving and sending RFID signals, and in response to receipt of an RFID signal, the device generating an activation signal representing an instruction to purge contents of data storage device contents; and, a control means responsive to the activation signal received from the RFID device for invoking logic to initiate a physical purge of contents of the data storage device. By applying GPS and RFID object movement can be detected and alerts triggered and data signals generated that invokes logic to yield a disk or data purge thus ensuring that a compromised computing device has no recoverable or accessible data.
An RFID-based data purge system for a computing device having a data storage device, said system comprising:
A method for purging content of a data storage device provided in a computing device, said method comprising:
A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium including computer usable program code for purging content of a data storage device provided in a computing device, said computer program product including:
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