>"Within minutes, he is scrolling through intimate details of people's lives, files left behind by the hard drives' original owners." >"There is private financ

>"Within minutes, he is scrolling through intimate details of people's lives, files left behind by the hard drives' original owners." >"There is private financial data, too: credit card numbers, account information, records of online transactions the original owners may not have realized were even there." I believe people should always encrypt their hard drives. Also worth checking out: http://www.dban.org/ http://www.dban.org/.