Yanking the drive out without warning might corrupt data if your files were still copying to or from the computer.

It's generally impossible to compress such files - the program sees each overlay as corrupt data.

That means they would interpret 2000 as 1900, which could cause the computers to corrupt data, crash programs or fail to operate at all.

The user can shut the system off by themselves to corrupt unwanted data.

At any time a computer user can unplug the system and corrupt unwanted data.

He wrote, "As anyone who uses one can attest, computers break down, get viruses, lose information, and corrupt data."

The application must not corrupt data if it crashes, or restarts from the saved state.

Its design is not simply to corrupt data or hijack it, but to eliminate it, and on a large scale.

"Half of those could corrupt data or crash systems."

Other kinds corrupt data on your machine or make your computer unstable.