When disposing of old equipment it is important to protect yourself from any possible security breach.  According to Tech Republic, one thing that you should do in order to protect yourself is to “eliminate access”.  “Ensure that you eliminate any accounts or other access control facilities that are associated with the decommissioned equipment. You don’t want an ex-employee still getting into his old workstation after he’s not supposed to have access to it any longer, and you don’t want lingering network access accounts used to remotely connect to the computer providing more ‘target surface’ for security crackers when you don’t need the account at all any longer. You should generally do this first.”

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Source: Chad Perrin, Tech Republic. (2011). “10 things you should do to securely dispose of computers”.