At a small, rural hospital, IT staffers often have to reformat and scrub the hard drives of old PC’s before re-deploying them.
“Having no access to a regular disk-wipe system, we would always take the hard drive out of the PC and into the room with the magnetic resonance imaging machine..”
“An MRI machine is primarily a huge electromagnet, so simply walking into the room with the drive would scramble the bits.”
But, someone neglected to tell the entire team not to take an entire PC, on a metal cart, into the MRI room.