When a file is emptied from your recycle bin it is not deleted?
There is some free encryption programs out there? (truecrypt)
Lockheed Martin, one of the big government defense contractors, left information about their missile defense systems, bank accounts, and employees on hard drives they sold on ebay or other auctions.
There are a few free data recovery/secure erasing programs that are easy to use. (Recuva, CCleaner, WinClear)
There are free programs to crack windows user passwords (ophcrack)
It could take several days to years to crack a 256-bit encryption depending on the length of the password.
"40% of hard drives sold on ebay have sensitive data on them"
Sometimes data that has been overwritten can be recovered.
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