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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. 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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