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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."

2 of 684 comments (clear)

  1. HDs... by GearheadX · · Score: 1, Redundant

    When you really want your privacy.. I know of only one way that really makes any old data on a drive more or less gone.

    The physical destruction of the recording medium.

  2. Re:DPA by Shant3030 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hahahaha that was great... mod this guy up

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