AntiHero

May 11, 2009 at 11:55am

This is why i keep all my "sensitive" files on a 4gb flash drive that's bootable (PUD Linux ftw) and ALWAYS in my coat inside pocket. I don't go ANYWHERE without it, just to be safe. I also use it for pc repair.. but still, only a moron would leave credit card numbers saved anywhere. Roboform is my tool of choice when I buy on the internet.

I don't like Microsoft, I associate with it.

Vano

May 09, 2009 at 11:53pm

The last sentence cranked me up

If you do insist on selling a used hard drive, be absolutely sure that
you wipe that sucker clean (or, format it, then drive a drill bit
through it).

...and forget to mention about the drill bit part in the drive description at ebay...

 

From personal experience:

3 years ago I found a whole computer box laying on side of the road for garbage men to pick it up, it was already opened and was missing power supply and video card. So, I did a favor to the garbage guys and picked it up myself.

The computer was probably 10 years old, with 8gb ATA33 hard drive in it. Guess what? the hard drive wasn't formatted and contained an excel file with 15 credit cards numbers with login information for online banking.

jjetfire

May 09, 2009 at 7:32pm

You guys obviously didn't catch the part where the people who bought the drives were doing a security study...  They bought the drives for the purpose of recovering data from them, and its a pecking Security Research Centre.  I'm guessing that DBAN isn't going to slow them down too much.

 The drillbit, on the other hand, probably would have worked nicely. 

jihnn

May 09, 2009 at 10:26am

a few years back i had a friend that was doing pirate cards for satallite tv, which is really illegal, possible hudge fines and lots of time in a fed pen

anyway one of his contacts got busted.  so, as he was keeping records on his puter he took the hard drive out of his puter, then walked out to the parking lot and pounded it with a ballpean hammer till it was in little pieces...... 

then we went back inside and had a cold one

Terabit

May 09, 2009 at 4:12am

This is truely an epic win. Still, Lockheed should have been more careful. I wish I got my hand on some of those drives. Could have sold them off to N. Korea for a pretty penny. Jokes.

 

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horzo

May 08, 2009 at 3:20pm

Wow, how pitiful. My company doesn't deal in anything remotely "top secret", and even we have a policy of zeroing out the sectors of any drive we're dumping.

I Jedi

May 08, 2009 at 2:49pm

Sorry... Medical records, business exchange, and freaking missle defense technology? Have any of these branches, especially the last one, heard of DBAN. ITS FREE. Absolutely free.. Here, let me give you the link: http://www.dban.org/ If you're going to sell a HDD that formerly held secret defense technology, then at the very least wipe out the HDD with DBAN at least a few times before even considering selling it... and even then..

Fuck, we had 6-armed nukes flying over the U.S. about a year ago and now missle defense technology almost falls into the wrong hands? I thought these people we're trained professionals.. I may never sleep well again at night... Good lord. 

AndyYankee17

May 08, 2009 at 2:10pm

or use dban, because A) it's more secure than drill bit and B) it'll actually work afterwards