Here we go – again.
John Leyden reports:
Security researchers found personal records of Sun newspaper and MoD staff on the hard drives of discarded or resold computers.
The study, The ghosts from the machines: A history of 10 years of carelessly discarded data, found that both businesses and consumers are getting rid of old PCss without wiping them clean.
Read more on The Register.
It takes very little effort to yank a hard drive and empty the cdrom trays. Take the hard drive in the driveway and whack it with a hammer. Some of the companies that do this enjoy a day of taking their frustrations out on old, replaced equipment. A tech doesn’t have to launch multiple copies of writes to a hard drive if the hard drive is beaten to a pancake, taking less time and effort on his part. Plus, the added addreniline will probably get him to close more trouble tickets for the day = Þ
I see you favor the same low-tech approach I’ve used here. 🙂
You’d ink someone would notice thousands of Brits running around missing their privates.