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Hi all,

My company has been using git bash and conemu in laptops, and now my employer has decided to upgrade these laptops, and by doing so, they need to sell the old ones. the problem is, my employer wants to make sure that all history and traces of previously accessed remote repo URLs to be purged completely from these laptops. will uninstalling both git bash and conemu be enough? or are these remote repo URL never been saved to local disk in the first place? thanks
 
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They're going to sell them without doing a complete security erasure of the hard disks?
 
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Well, the buyer would like to keep the windows, so they don't need to reinstall the windows. Is this possible? thanks
 
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Not and retain any semblance of security. My advice is to perform a security erasure of the disks and then reinstall a fresh copy of Windows.
 
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ok, but I'm a bit curious. Does the history of repo URLs that I have accessed in that laptop get stored in the local disk? if it does, how do I remove it all cleanly? thanks
 
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That I have no knowledge of, but there's all sorts of other sensitive information that could be stored, including passwords. Depends upon what the system was used for.

But to me, it is lunacy to consider passing on a system to an outside party without a multi-pass security erasure.
 
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