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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ARGHhhh... D�ja vu! by G.+W.+Bush+Junior · 2003-01-20 03:52 · Score: -1, Redundant

I just got the strangest feeling of Déja vu...

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Dup by DeadSea · 2003-01-20 03:52 · Score: -1, Redundant

Data Mining Used Hard Drives
Dupe by geoffeg · 2003-01-20 03:53 · Score: -1, Redundant

Been there.. done that...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/2345 21 7&mode=nested&tid=158
amazing find! by drfireman · 2003-01-20 03:54 · Score: -1, Redundant

I once found an old hard disk with the same Slashdot story repeated thousands of times, each with slightly different wording!
First comment... Its a dupe by abhikhurana · 2003-01-20 03:54 · Score: -1, Redundant

Here is the originalposted 4 days back: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/234521 7&mode=thread&tid=158

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this proves that.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-20 03:54 · Score: -1, Redundant

... CmdTaco doesn't read slashdot.
Wow! I coulda sworn...yep, seen it before!! by bubba_ry · 2003-01-20 03:57 · Score: -1, Redundant

You can check it here if you like...
If they went through Slashdot's HD by Whatsthiswhatsthis · 2003-01-20 04:04 · Score: -1, Redundant

They probably would find the same Slashdot stories from last week.
I found old slashdot articles on an old HDD once.. by Dman33 · 2003-01-20 04:07 · Score: -1, Redundant

I got an old hard-drive from school and found on it a bunch of old Slashdot articles. Of course, I was able to log into Slashdot that very day and read the same articles being reposted
REDUNDANT! by boy_afraid · 2003-01-20 04:11 · Score: -1, Redundant

This story should be moderated as REDUNDANT!
before you know it.. by minus_273 · 2003-01-20 04:16 · Score: -1, Redundant

/. effect will mean a duplication

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You are in a maze of twisty little stories... by hoggoth · 2003-01-20 04:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

You are in a maze of twisty little stories, all alike.

nuff said.

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Shocking! by alfredw · 2003-01-20 04:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

...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?

Wow! I guess no one learned anything from the story last week!

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Dejavu ? by CristianoMonteiro · 2003-01-20 04:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

Did you see a black cat passing twice ? Never mind...

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duplicates by damian · 2003-01-20 04:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

i think its about time that slashdot stories get scoring too, just like the comments. with an option in preferences to ignore scores below a certain level this would make reading slashdot a lot nicer. i guess duplicates would get hidden pretty quick.
well by tps12 · 2003-01-20 04:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

I bought a hard drive that used to be shared by a bunch of Slashbots. It contained hundreds of variations on a joke about buying CmdrTaco's old hard drive and finding duplicate stories.

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Humor deprivation experiment gone wrong.... by carlos_benj · 2003-01-20 04:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

Can we have a secondary designation of Anonymous Twit for those who can't ferret out a clue?

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Strangest thing I'v seen on Old HD's by secs · 2003-01-20 05:28 · Score: 0, Redundant

The strangest thing I have ever come accross on old hard drives, are the original articles of all the dupe posts to slashdot.
Strangest thing found? by spazoid12 · 2003-01-20 06:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

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

Couple of days ago I bought a used hard drive and the strangest thing I found on it was a duplicate of this story!

Slashdot -- for your daily duplicate news
Second hand post reveals carelessness. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-20 06:21 · Score: -1, Redundant

Come on Taco. Even Cowboy Neal does better than this.
Strangest thing on hard drive by sir99 · 2003-01-20 06:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

What's the strangest thing I've found left on a hard drive? A bunch of twisty little slashdot articles, all alike. In my browser cache, that is (yeah, I know the "Adventure" reference isn't quite right, but I've never played it, so what the hey).

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