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My thoughts are this, you can keep anything on your HOME PC as long as you keep it secure. I sure wouldn't keep documents like that on a laptop.
I agree! In fact, I'd immediately Copy any important files to a USB Thumb drive and/or Copy them to a CD or DVD for archival storage then delete from the HDD including emptying the Recycle Bin. Some folks even use a program that does a secure wipe of free space on the HDD although in most cases simply defragmenting with move enough files around to cover what was there [maybe TRIM on an SSD].
Many thanks to all.
Very interesting replies A lot to think about.
Sorry to get back to you someone said about encrypting a usb pen drive.
Can you please assist me on how this can be done.
Last edited by dafydd; 09 Jun 2016 at 14:21.
I should also mention that when I said I keep them on my home computer, I meant a tower that is wired to my network. I don't keep anything like that on my laptop, just in case I leave it somewhere or it were to be stolen.
I use VeraCrypt to secure all of my sensitive data.