{"id":17695,"date":"2010-07-09T12:33:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T17:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=17695"},"modified":"2010-07-09T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T17:33:39","slug":"ask-leo-are-you-ready-for-your-pc-to-be-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/ask-leo-are-you-ready-for-your-pc-to-be-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Leo: Are You Ready for Your PC to Be Stolen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090929leonotenboomwp.jpg\" alt=\"askleo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7652 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who&#8217;s worked with computers for any length of time has experienced a disaster of some sort. The crash that happens just before you save your document to disk. The failure that renders a disk unreadable. 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