In this Linux Journal article Dave Sifry looks inside some computers he bought on eBay. "I pulled out my Linuxcare Bootable Business Card, a disk I helped develop that I often use when doing forensics of unknown systems. It's a utility that allows me to quickly and easily bypass the operating system and retrieve data, a task critical for performing data recovery of corrupted systems or for performing forensic analysis of systems that have been compromised by intruders. Within 45 seconds I was looking at the data on the computer's hard drive, and what I saw shocked me. It turns out that the first computer I bought used to be the main e-mail server for a highly visible startup."

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