[ale] OT: Refurbished HDD

[Jim Kinney]

Ha!

I bought a "refurbished" windows system 6 years and found it had user
accounts, data, etc still on it. I did a dd ..zero.. on it and
returned it and told the manager what I found. Next time I got one I
noticed the new QC stickers. I pointed it out the manager and was
informed that means someone at the store manually checked the system
for "customer ready". They quit relying on the supplier.

I have never done forensics on a refurbished drive to see what I could find.

Nothing compares to the SGI Origin I bought of eBay that came loaded
with thousands of credit card numbers and customer data from the
defunct @Home ISP. Root password had been set to NULL. <sigh>

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:30 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I see a lot of these for sale at MicroCenter. What "refurbished" is
>> supposed to mean for HDD?
>
>
>
> "Chock full of someone's personal data."
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