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40% of hard drives bought on eBay hold personal, corporate data
Topic: Computer Security 8:04 am EST, Feb 12, 2009

A New York computer forensics firm found that 40% of the hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders on eBay contained personal, private and sensitive information.

Recently, Decius wrote:

One must assume that all garbage is monitored by the state. Anything less would be a pre-911 mentality.

40% of hard drives bought on eBay hold personal, corporate data



 
 
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