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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."

12 of 684 comments (clear)

  1. Oh, man. Hear it comes. by bmetz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I smell some seriously interesting anecdotes coming in from slashdot readers. :)

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  2. fp? by devleopard · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    maybe....

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  3. 2nd Post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    w00t

  4. last post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    goatsex!

  5. Re:This is news? by yellowstone · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Welcome to 1979 [...] a 50MB external Sun SCSI enclosure [...] hooked it up to my Linux box,
    Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982. And Linus didn't start Linux until 1991. What year was that again?
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  6. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MOD PARENT UP +5 insightful

  7. Big deal, what does this have to do with Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If it isn't Linux related, it's unimoprtant.

  8. $1000s to recover?!? by GMontag · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No thanks, I will stick to USENET for my porn, thank you verry much!

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  9. Re:Old news or not... by Ironica · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, well, turns out I'm female too... so, what was your point again?

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  10. YOU FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You suck. No fp for you. You fail it.

    u R teh L0532

  11. well by dsanfte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For a fee, of course.

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  12. Sig theft? by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    How long have you had your sig? DMCA violator! :)