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Radio Stream: Personal Info on Used Hard Drives A friend of mine purchased a used computer and discovered that it contained medical records belonging to our city's Mayor. I thought it was pretty funny until I realized that the Mayor and I went to the same doctor...
NPR Radio-- "Guest host John Ydstie talks with Simson Garfinkel, a graduate student at MIT. Garfinkel and another MIT student recently purchased 158 used hard drives and found more than 5,000 credit card numbers, detailed personal and corporate financial records, numerous medical records, gigabytes of personal email and pornography."
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