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Game prototypes and code found on discarded hard drive, now it’s obviously been uploaded to the Internet

Make sure you wipe your hard drives before you thrown them away, or the chances of them being uploaded are high, especially if they are full of games stuff.

According to a report on NintendoLife, the person in possession of the drive has said they will not be leaking anything to do with this particular game, presumably to minimize harm to Wayforward, going, er forward. But let this be a lesson to us all about how to dispose of our old hard drives in a more permanent way, because there is always somebody with a fast internet connection standing by to upload this stuff. Having spent time as Head of Communications at a professional sports club and working for high-profile charities such as the National Literacy Trust, he returned as Managing Editor in charge of large US-based technology websites in 2020.

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