Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets

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Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 20, 2003 @03:51AM from the hasn't-anyone-heard-of-dd dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BBC News has a story about MIT grads buying old hard discs from eBay and elsewhere, and finding credit card numbers, ATM transactions, porn and emails all accessible on them. Comments? What's the strangest thing readers have found, or left, on a hard drive?"

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Re:Another Duplicate.... by swordboy · 2003-01-20 03:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually,

I believe the original story was in the cache files on the hard drives in question.

BaDoom!

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What do I see on old hard drives? by stienman · 2003-01-20 03:58 · Score: 5, Funny

I see duplicates. They're everywhere - they don't even know they're duplicates...

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HEHE by RedWolves2 · 2003-01-20 03:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Some MIT kid in the future is going to stumble across the Slashdot hard drives and go "God Damn they posted Duplicates alot."
Note to Mods: Clearly OT by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-20 04:19 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm not trying to bash baryon, but really, is this the place to be discussing information gleaned from old hard drives?
Every other poster has managed to stay within the confines of this discussion, which is clearly about Duplicate stories being posted to Slashdot.
I don't think it's fair to them, or the rest of the readers, if this post doesn't get modded down to -1 Offtopic.
That's easy by Chocolate+Teapot · 2003-01-20 04:45 · Score: 5, Funny

What's the strangest thing readers have found, or left, on a hard drive?
Windows '95

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Tomorrow on New Scientist by Longjmp · 2003-01-20 05:06 · Score: 5, Funny

15:08 21 January 03

At a worldwide conference held in Atlanta, GA, leading scientists and publishers agreed on a new measurement unit to describe the common phenomenon of news stories getting published repeatedly on internet news sites.

1 Taco = 3 dpm (dupes per minute)

After a lengthy discussion we eventually agreed to name the new unit after "CmdrTaco", founder of the famous web site Slashdot. We are really happy now, this has been bothering us since the beginning of the internet. said Sag. S. Nochmal, German publisher and chairman of the convention.

"CmdrTaco" himself was unavailable for comment. He was last seen yelling "Eternal fame" and "must write automatic re-post script now."

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Re:It's all Taco... by Storm · 2003-01-20 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny

If you look back over the list of duplicates, nearly all of them are Taco's.

Now remember, gang, he's a newlywed...He is in that magical time between "I'm a geek and never have a date." and marriage being old hat (or just old). The boy's (possibly for the first time since the site started) got something other than slashdot on his mind...

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