make a case against, say, an unlicensed computer repair person who was asked by someone to recover the contents of "his" hard drive, only to find out later that it wasn't actually his.
Reminds me of the time I recovered the p/w and data on a Bank of America client machine...

guy walks into store...
"hey I lost my password, can you recover it for me? While your at it can you back up my drive..."

I say sure... yank drive and b/u... then boot to p/w boot disk and reset admin acct, boots up to the desktop. First thing I see is a BOA logo on the desktop. I immediately kill the box and get on the phone...

BOA Lady on other end didn't even know a box was missing, come to find out the guy jacked it when they were doing a building remodel.

Originally Posted By nihil
"To be perfectly honest, I am not so much worried about what I might find, but what might be found by the authorities on a customer's machine on my premises."
So this ties back to your liability potentially would be much higher when you have say, a stolen computer from a financal institution on your property that you just hacked into and recovered the data from. I believe this might relate to what they are aiming at, which is to lock down the procedures if this happens and what steps to take if you accidentially process stolen merchandise.

Now that I work for a financial institution I know that there are reporting laws that are in place that BOA didn't follow that day in regards to a computer being stolen that could have contained user information. (I didn't look) Assuming I was a private investigator I would probably be required to report this incident to the authorities vs. just acting like it never happened....

Thanks for the welcome... more thanks to irongeeks website for the link over