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Governmental Servers Wiped? Never!

Posted by timothy on from the but-this-is-in-australia dept.

Geoff writes with a story from Australia: "Eighteen AIX servers purchased from government via auction -- none of them had data removed from them. Ticket Vending and Validation source code, Payroll, Finance, Emails and Customer complaints. All there on every server; they were even nice enough to include some old backup tapes. At ~$14USD per server, it's amazing how cheap personal information has become."

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  1. you know they could have just.... by thegoogler · · Score: 5, Informative
    used dban, its not rocket science. just put the disk in and hit ok

    o wait, this is the goverment, nevermind