Which brings up the issue, just how DO you dispose of these types of things. I have several old hard drives that crashed a few years ago and I just never got around to throwing them out. Also, after making periodic backups of crucial data onto CDs every so often those things have just piled up. What does everyone do to dispose of these things? I don't want to have to take a stack of CDs out back every so often and beat them up with a hammer....hehehe. That sounds so primitive in this day and age. I can't wait for replies to this.
Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: [brlug-general] Fwd: [IPG] fun with discarded hard drives > Hello ebay.. > > ><http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993274>http<http://www.ne wscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993274>://www.newscientist.com/news/news .jsp?id=ns99993274 > > > > > >Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat, graduate students at the Massachusetts > >Institute of Technology, analysed 158 second hand hard drives bought over > >the internet between November 2000 and August 2002. They were able to > >recover over 6000 credit card numbers, as well as email messages and > >pornographic images. > > > ><snip> > > > >One drive had previously been used in an ATM cash machine and contained > >2868 different numbers, as well as account and transaction information. > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
