What if you received the following phone call? A stranger named Ed on the other end of the line says "Mr. Gerbus, I just bought your hard drive in Chicago."

MSNBC posts this cautionary tale of life in our new computer age.

The bottom line: Before disposing of a functioning computer hard drive, use one of several inexpensive disk erase utilities that permanently overwrite your personal data.

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