{"id":5386,"date":"2004-03-24T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T07:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/03\/24\/ive-got-a-secret.html"},"modified":"2004-03-24T00:08:03","modified_gmt":"2004-03-24T07:08:03","slug":"ive_got_a_secre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/24\/ive_got_a_secre.html","title":{"rendered":"I’ve got a secret …"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cautionary tale here by someone who buys used hard drives second-hand and unerases them<\/a>, revealing their contents.<\/p>\n

In fact, only 10 percent of the drives I purchased had been properly sanitized. Much of the data we found was truly shocking. One of the drives once lived in an ATM. It contained a year’s worth of financial transactions\u2014including account numbers and withdrawal amounts\u2014from a organization that had a legal requirement to not divulge such information. Two other drives contained more than 5,000 credit card numbers\u2014it looked as if one had been inside a cash register. Another had e-mail and personal financial records of a 45-year-old fellow in Georgia. The man is divorced, paying child support and dating a woman he met in Savannah. And, oh yeah, he’s really into pornography.<\/p>\n

And the sad thing is, it’s not all that difficult to find programs that will scrub disk data properly before disposal.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should send this article to the folks at my help desk …<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A cautionary tale here by someone who buys used hard drives second-hand and unerases them, revealing their contents. 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