Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 8, 2004 @02:30PM from the oops dept.

Saeed al-Sahaf writes "The Register is running a story about a security consulting company that as part of a study bought hard drives and laptops on eBay, and then was able to recover highly sensitive data including customer databases, financial information, payroll records, personnel details, login codes, and admin passwords for their secure Intranet site. This is a bit scary considering all of these drives were supposedly formatted and sold for surplus by major companies (although few of us actually use the multiple formatting standards of the DoD). Looks like it's hardly necessary for crooks to get at your private information, although I sure industrial espionage spooks have probably done this for awhile." Shades of the recent post about recovering sensitive contents from swap partitions.

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Re:What kind of bullshit story is that? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-08 15:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Oh yea, well I found a 1gb microdisk under by burger patty at McDonald's. Guess what, it belonged to GW Bush and it had nuclear launch codes on it.
Re:I Am NOT a "diabetic" by The+Almighty+Dave · 2004-06-09 00:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

From Dictionary.com:
diabetic
adj.
1. Of, relating to, having, or resulting from
diabetes: diabetic patients; a diabetic coma.
2. Intended for use by a person with diabetes:
diabetic candy.

n.
A person who has diabetes.
You are a diabetic.