Old hard drives yield data bonanza

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Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate students have uncovered a treasure trove of personal and corporate information on used disk drives.

Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat, students at MITs Laboratory of Computer Science, said Wednesday that they bought 158 disk drives for less than $1,000 on the Web and at swap meets.

Scavenging through the drives, they found more than 5,000 credit card numbers, medical reports, detailed personal and corporate financial information, and several gigabytes worth of personal e-mail and pornography.

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[ki||fr0g]

jien gieli xtrajt PCs li kienu go govt offices u l-istess haga, qas bicca format ma jtuhom

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Vera komuni din il-haga u hadd ma jghati kaz. In-nies jridu jkunu jafu fuq dawn l-affarijiet :\:

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Originally posted by ki||fr0g
jien gieli xtrajt PCs li kienu go govt offices u l-istess haga, qas bicca format ma jtuhom

yep, gratli jien ukoll!

btw nice ass on that avatar ;)

[ki||fr0g]

shake that ass :p