Patent ID: 7644860

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a first recording medium that is capable of recording programs and data; a password input unit to which a password is inputted; a password judging unit that judges whether a password inputted to the password input unit and a password stored in advance coincide with each other; a condition judging unit that judges, when the apparatus is started, whether a condition set in advance is satisfied, wherein, when the condition judging unit judges that the condition set in advance is satisfied, the information processing apparatus sets a self-erasing program in the first recording medium and the first recording medium self-erases programs and data recorded in the first recording medium according to the self-erasing program, a clock that outputs time data; and a second recording medium that records an operation end time of the apparatus obtained by using the clock, wherein the condition set in advance is a condition that a time difference between a start time when the apparatus is started and a previous operation end time recorded in the second recording medium exceeds a predetermined time.