Always good to pick up a secondhand laptop and almost immediately find it's got saved emails on it labled "PRIV & CONFIDENTIAL" and "Attorney-Client Privileged Communication"
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Always good to pick up a secondhand laptop and almost immediately find it's got saved emails on it labled "PRIV & CONFIDENTIAL" and "Attorney-Client Privileged Communication"
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who the fuck is hunter biden
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Denis Warburtonreplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
@foone oh lordy lol
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@foone Oh dear. Can you tell if it belonged to the client or the lawyer?
A careless client is at least sliiiightly more excusable.
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@azonenberg I'd have to look into the emails and I don't want to do that
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It's funny because I go to the ewaste place once a week, and every time out of the last couple months I've managed to grab some thing accidentally full of PII.
Except last week I didn't go, I was feeling bad. My roommate went, though, and she picked up a laptop that she later gave to me.
That's the one I found the PII on. Even when I don't go to ewaste, I find PII anyway -
I think the previous owner tried to do a factory reset but accidentally did a "reset windows only" kind of reset, so it reinstalled Windows 10 fresh, but preserved the user's files.
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Xavier Ashe :donor:replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone Back when I was into forensics, we would buy lots of old drives off of ebay. Always found something interesting.
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S March Nevan Sarah Aureliareplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone just curious, what do you do in such cases?
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Advanced Persistent Teapotreplied to Xavier Ashe :donor: last edited by
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@foone I bought a Commodore 128D a week ago. Got home and discovered it had PII on it.
"but the C128 doesn't have a HDD, you mean on floppies that came with it right?" - nope, _engraved_ into the body.
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@acp hah!
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Advanced Persistent Teapot last edited by
@http_error_418 @Xavier yeah. Fortunately not an issue I've run into, but I'm always anxious.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to S March Nevan Sarah Aurelia last edited by
@Aurelianite erase it immediately usually. Occasionally if it looks like a personal computer I'll see if I can drop them a line and go "hey I found your old files, need 'em?" and then either hand them over or erase them.
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@foone this is how I ended up mitigating it - really don’t want to further engrave the already not super common machine, so settling for security by “hopefully the PII will be long irrelevant by the time the next owner thinks to move the sticker”
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pootriarch ⏚ :witches_town:replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone pardon my ignorance, what does it mean to 'go to the ewaste place'? they just have racks of stuff people disposed of, and one can buy/take stuff?
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to pootriarch ⏚ :witches_town: last edited by
@pootriarch yeah. They're a company that does ewaste disposal for assorted bay area tech companies, and they sell off stuff to hobbists so it can be reused rather than ending up mined for gold or tossed in a landfill
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@acp clever.
