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Data Mining Used Hard Drives

Posted by timothy on from the but-sircam-does-this-for-me-already dept.

linuxwrangler writes "One hopes the /. crowd knows the perils of discarding storage with sensitive data but this article drives home the point. Two MIT grad students bought used drives from eBay and secondhand computer stores. Among the data found on the 158 drives were 5,000 credit-card numbers, porn, love-letters and medical information."

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  1. ROFL by nlinecomputers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They moded me offtopic. I love it. Thanks for the laugh. Worth the karma hit.

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