You might want to read the Let's talk about security post I just made. Doubt it. The hardware will have addresses and serial numbers that will be available to anyone with physical access to your computer. 1. Yep. 2. Put the files in the Persistence folder, or something like that. 3. Put all of them in there. Won't hurt. I don't know if it works on an SSD. SSDs require special kinds of overwrite techniques. You should google specific tools for that.