Legal Responsibility For Individuals Recovering Deleted Partitions From Purchased HD

[j_v_z]

what are you talking about?

 

[dude_se]

i would say not. its their property once sold. they could have put that stuff on. case closed

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

 

[dude_se]

www.killdisk.com ive always wanted to try that

 

[blackjack]

To be honest If the seller doesn't have an ounce of sense to cover his tracks properly he is a fool, It would be extremely harsh for someone to purposely set out to find hidden data on a second hand drive then use it against the person they bought it off unless it was so bad like pornography or worse.
I would also question what type of person the buyer is,if he is intent on searching for stuff then his intension's don't sound much better either.

 

[j_v_z]

what

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

who the hell would go through your old hard drive and then report you?

sure, i go through old hard drives i buy and shit, and i find credit card numbers, social security numbers, addresses, passwords, illegal shit. i don't report them...theres no point.

and its just too time consuming to go about recovering deleted files. i just look through whats on the hard drive, and it would just waste my time to recover deleted files. i highly doubt anyone who bought your hard drive would care what illegal shit you have on there.

 

[j_v_z]

what?

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

not if you delete it good

but seriously, nobody is going to care.

 

[_-..zKiLLA..-_]

maybe if u sell it to a cop, or some hacker, then the hacker gits in trouble then they search the drive for whatever is there. but the chances thats gonna happen is unlikely enough to call it safe.