confidential info on old harddrives.

At 12:16 AM 5/27/99 +0100, Tony wrote: YES! let's get this straight folks, there is nothing "wrong" about giving someone a computer that has personal and private information on it, it means you are trusting them to delete it. But it is VERY wrong if you come into possesion of personal and private information to exploit it. Now Allison's point is well taken that the lawyer's who give you a computer with confidential files have used bad judgement trusting you to protect it (assuming you don't) but _you_ break the law when you reveal confidential information. The "problem" here would be people who use information they find on disposed computers for personal pleasure or gain. If this issue was too visible I'd be finding more machines like my MicroVAXEN that were 100% operational except the previous owner (GE) had all the media devices (hard drives, tape drives, etc) sent to the crusher. --Chuck