Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and Sun staffers’ privates
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.
3 comments to “Binned PCs were stuffed with MoD and Sun staffers’ privates”
garykva - October 27, 2011
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
admin - October 27, 2011
I see you favor the same low-tech approach I’ve used here. 🙂
Anon - October 27, 2011
You’d ink someone would notice thousands of Brits running around missing their privates.