Properly Erase Your Physical Media

Lifehacker - Properly Erase Your Physical Media - Hard Drives: "'The average person who knows anything about computers could plug in these disks and just go surfing,' Kessler said. 'I know they found a guy's foot fetish on one disk. He'd been downloading loads and loads of stuff on feet. With what we got on that disk — his name, address and all of his contacts — it would have been extremely embarrassing if we were somebody who wanted to blackmail him.'"