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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. pr0n datamining! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    all that pr0n!!! I bet you they data mined that for a while, just to sort the midgets from the amputees.

  2. Moderators are idiots! by nlinecomputers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How is this comment OFFTOPIC?

    Pefectly good mod point wasted....

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  3. 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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  4. Re:Old news or not... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    the point is that women don't know shit, nor do they care, about the ins and outs of technology....BEEEOTCH

    there's only two places for a woman, and I don't need to say what they are...