"There are also privacy issues when people sell a laptop or any computer that includes personal information. “Whether it’s a cellphone or laptop, your personal information needs to be sanitized or destroyed before it’s passed on because it could potentially come back to harm you or someone you know,” said Robert Johnson, executive director of the National Association for Information Destruction in Phoenix."

- From an article in the new york times about youths re-selling their semi-old techno gadgets. Of course, the prospect of phishing credit card numbers and the likes have been a semi-real threat, and weve all read about some computer geek/guru who wanted to drive the point home, so he purchased x amount of hard drives online, and came up with all sorts of scary info that im sure your mom wouldnt be happy to know is out there in the world.

But to start a National Association of Information Destruction just because of this? I mean, really?