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June 21, 2004
For Sale By Public Auction: Juicy Laptop Secrets
Stockholm-based Pointsec Mobile Technologies bought 100 laptops from a variety of Internet and public auctions and was able to pull sensitive data from 70 of them. Read more at Computerworld.com.
The lesson here should be obvious: zero all data on any hard drive before you retire it.
Posted by jasonogrady at June 21, 2004 11:02 PM
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