Q. Also, are there any very free data recovery softwares around?
A. For Data Recovery Software visit at:
http://www.nucleustechnologies.com
I think you can find different types data recovery software at this site.
you can download free demo of data recovery software
http://www.nucleustechnologies.com
I think you can find different types data recovery software at this site.
you can download free demo of data recovery software
So I bought a used hard drive, ran some data recovery software, found stuff - is this illegal?
Q. So I just used some free data recovery software on the used harddrive, and I found out it looks like a guy who owned the hard drive worked as some computer tech guy for a small-medium company. He managed a huge spreadsheet of 534 product keys to various high end software products. He also had lots of pictures of his family, and some other documents relating to wherever he was working. Looked like proprietary information... Is this illegal what I have done? And I do plan to wipe it with dban some time the next few days - I am not going to sell the product keys or anything haha.
A. If you do not do anything illegal with the information and the data itself was not illegal ( child porn, etc.) there was nothing illegal about this.
So I bought a used hard drive, ran some data recovery software, found stuff - is this illegal?
Q. So I just used some free data recovery software on the used harddrive, and I found out it looks like a guy who owned the hard drive worked as some computer tech guy for a small-medium company. He managed a huge spreadsheet of 534 product keys to various high end software products. He also had lots of pictures of his family, and some other documents relating to wherever he was working. Looked like proprietary information... Is this illegal what I have done? And I do plan to wipe it with dban some time the next few days - I am not going to sell the product keys or anything haha.
A. It's what you do with the data that might make you a criminal, not accessing the data itself.
The moron who didn't wipe the drive (with DBAN or some other drive-wiping software) should be spanked for his egregious error.
You should write to the company and get that idiot fired (unless he let this happen to get even with the company for something that he feels the company did to him that wasn't right, just, or fair).
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Of course, the hard drive might have been from a stolen computer. The original seller might have been a thief, or might have gotten it from a thief. It's impossible to know without involving the authorities.
You should just DBAN it and be done with this issue.
The moron who didn't wipe the drive (with DBAN or some other drive-wiping software) should be spanked for his egregious error.
You should write to the company and get that idiot fired (unless he let this happen to get even with the company for something that he feels the company did to him that wasn't right, just, or fair).
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Of course, the hard drive might have been from a stolen computer. The original seller might have been a thief, or might have gotten it from a thief. It's impossible to know without involving the authorities.
You should just DBAN it and be done with this issue.
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