Second Hand Stealing

I was reading in the local newspaper today an article about how industrial spies find information about companies secrets. Well, I can admit I have never thought about this before. It is one of those things you can only think about if you are kind of a maniac related to security or if somebody warned you about it. But it is quite obvious...

Did you see how many second hand deals you find for hard drives? Well, did you see how many people buy such things? Used hard drives, formatted and resold. Well, how about such a hard drive getting in the wrong hands?

Without a physical format, with a un-delete utility you can recover the information from the hdd, so your information is not that secured anymore, is it?

Did you ever think about this? Well, I can tell you that before this day I didn't spend much time about it. But I will, for sure, in the future...