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What Not To Do With Your Data

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-not-put-in-mouth dept.

Tiny Tim writes "Stupidity strikes! A data recovery company has revealed the dumbest data disasters it's confronted this year — including rotting bananas, smelly socks and a university professor's foolhardy application of WD-40."

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  1. Privacy aspect by tomalpha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's interesting about this story is how easy it might be for *others* to recover your data after you think you've wiped it.

    1. Re:Privacy aspect by tdemark · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I don't think it's the company you have to worry about. It's the person they send your drive to after they refurbish it you should be concerned about.

  2. advert alert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    waste of time

  3. Ok... by aliendisaster · · Score: 3, Insightful
    according to a data recovery company that has released a list of the most remarkable cases of data loss witnessed this year.
    British comedian Dom Joly, presenter of Trigger Happy TV, thought the joke was on him when he dropped his laptop, damaging a hard drive containing 5,000 photos, 6,000 songs, a book he was writing and all of his newspaper columns.
    Is dropping a laptop really that remarkable? I think they are just trying to name drop on this part.
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  4. slashvertisement? by minus_273 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This thing is full of really bad puns and reads like an ad for a certian data recovery company. how the hell did this get posted on the front page?

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  5. STOP POSTING ADS by rbanzai · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "OnTrack claims it rescued the data in all cases. Jim Reinert, senior director of software and services for the company, said it pays to have your damaged hard drive or storage device evaluated because the chances of recovery are good."

    This "slashvertisement" crap has gone too far.

  6. Advert for a company NOT to go to.. by mdobossy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like my data to be private, and if I was ever in need of a data recovery company, I would expect them to be professional, and respect my privacy/data.

    Here you have a company airing their clients misfortunes all over the net.. and in one case even specifying the name of the individual. Doesn't exactly give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about how well they respect a client's privacy.

  7. Re:nonsense! by thepotoo · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you this season's lame Slashdot joke! (Don't worry if you find it funny. It'll lose its charm in about ten or twenty repetitions.)

    A guy with a sig like yours has no right to talk ;)

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  8. Write-only disk drive? by wsanders · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Easy DIY project - the write-only disk drive!

    Reminds me of the colleague who asked "What is the best program to convert files?"

    Answer: "Well, rm converts files into free disk space very efficiently!"

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