[clug] An old debate: Forensics study of cleaning old diskdrives sold on e-bay [SEC=PERSONAL]

[Jason Stokes]

I spend a lot of time mucking about with free/almost free hardware from garage sales, freecycle giveaways, revolve, trash 'n' treasure etc, and I'd say that 90% have some kind of personal information still on them when I get them.  It's always pretty innocuous information like school reports -- usually it's the creaking old family pc in the corner that's finally being got rid of -- but it's creepy having that temptation to browse through someone else's life.


----- Original Message ----
From: "Roppola, Antti - BRS" <Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au>
To: Karun Dambiec <kdambiec at ieee.org>; linux at lists.samba.org
Sent: Friday, 27 February, 2009 12:20:36 PM
Subject: RE: [clug] An old debate: Forensics study of cleaning old diskdrives sold on e-bay [SEC=PERSONAL]

Most people just don't care or appreciate how this could be an issue.

I suspect that many people just don't care for the same reason they'd
never expect anyone to rummage through their rubbish to recover old
bills and bank statements.

I suppose the reality of it is that other avenues are seen as higher
risks as far as identity theft goes, and it's not particularly rampant
anyway.

Antti

Karun wrote:

> It seems to be a reoccuring issue. Perhaps a study could be done into
why this occurs especially in households.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:32:04PM +1100, steve jenkin wrote:
> An ongoing interest in this list:
> 
> <http://www.investigation.com/articles/library/2008articles/articles10
> .htm>
> 
> These people bought 100 drives old drives off e-bay and 40% contained 
> 'sensitive' information.


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