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Re: Supposedly Destroyed Hard Drive Purchased In Chicago
From: "Jon Miller" <jmiller () securespace org>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 14:39:55 -0400
The failure of Best Buy to do what they said notwithstanding, and with all due respect to the Gerbus', why didn't they simply ask for the old drive to be returned? The problem is not technology, but the use of it... On 6/3/06, lyger <lyger () attrition org> wrote:
(smaller scale breach, but still made news...) http://news.yahoo.com/s/wlwt/20060601/lo_wlwt/9303216 A year ago, Henry and Roma Gerbus took their computer to Best Buy in Springfield Township to have its hard drive replaced. Henry Gerbus said Best Buy assured him the computer's old hard drive -- loaded with personal information -- would be destroyed. "They said rest assured. They drill holes in it so it's useless," said Gerbus. A few months ago, Gerbus got a phone call from a man in Chicago. "He said, 'My name is Ed. I just bought your hard drive for $25 at a flea market in Chicago,'" said Gerbus. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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