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- MacBookForMe, on 09/29/2008, -1/+22We have little zillions of security breaches by authorities considering protection of sensitive personal details in Britain every day, and still nothing changes:)
- jocampbe, on 09/29/2008, -1/+20Not the Kirklees Council! Wait, it wasn't the one in West Yorkshire, was it? OMG it was! The humanity!
- TomKarpik, on 09/29/2008, -0/+18eBay? 99p? HOW MUCH WAS THE SHIPPING? :-D
- Greg, on 09/29/2008, -0/+10TJ Maxx in the US is TK Maxx in the UK?
Not sure why, but something about that is mind-blowing. - malechite, on 09/29/2008, -3/+11This is why you restore factory settings on firmware, or do a 7 or 35 way low level on a hard drive before you resell it....
- Adv1s, on 09/29/2008, -0/+7This is my local council and I expect nothing less of these incompetent fools. A chocolate fire guard has far more use to a person than these set of clowns.
- GeorgeStone2, on 09/29/2008, -0/+6*facepalm*
- GiJoeBob, on 09/29/2008, -0/+6He hacked their Gibson!
- Jus2Gud, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4The process you're referring to wouldn't be a low-level format, it's just zero-filling it, i.e a normal format. Don't quote me but I think its impossible to do a Low Level Format on newer drives .A 7-pass format is what the DoD use I think. A really good program to use is Dariks Boot and Nuke (DBAN) which will do the 35 pass format which you quote, it's freeware (or at least the copy I have had for years is)
- PHiZ187, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4No-one in the U.S. knows what a council is. It is a local unit of government in the U.K. like a town or city government. I have seen this article multiple places, and they leave out this crucial bit of cultural detail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_council - kinerry, on 09/29/2008, -1/+4not sure if you noticed, but that's cisco hardware
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3Woop West Yorkshire (the county where I live) we rock! oh no wait........
- strictnein, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3The terrorists have already won?
- NinjaBoy, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2The basic underlying problem is that as a security admin you have to look for EVERY hole in your network All the time (this even means users) and a hacker only needs one, one time.
- Gullop, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2West Yorkshire re%
- cheezygrin, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2I second you on using DBAN. we use it all the time at work to security erase sensitive data. not sure if it maybe runs a bit slower on newer SATA drives though. Works great on IDE.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Unfortunately, the real-world solution is that agencies just destroy the stuff instead of taking the time to understand and implement the proper procedure of doing a factory reset, secure wipe, etc.
- Akkarin128, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2
This story sounded all very interesting until you read so far as to find out it's some minor place in West Yorkshire. - captscott, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2Nice work Andrew - that's some good publicity! Frontpage of Digg AND main story on BBC Technology....you can't buy that! :-)
- malechite, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2yeah DBAN is awesome. thats what we use... didnt mean to refer to is as "low level" i meant random data passes, but whatever.
- PHiZ187, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Hahahaha
- Ebsy, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Well, this being Digg. It's safe to assume that 99.9% of users know what a JEDI Council is. So the link isn't really necessary.
- NiyazK, on 02/08/2009, -0/+1Nice Article..
You got to check the latest upcomings of the hardware news - http://techb.net/category/hardware/ - cheezygrin, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1a WHOLE ebay?!?
- Ramenamen, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Whoops.
- nirav72, on 09/29/2008, -1/+1and they find lots of porn.
- kenelbow, on 09/30/2008, -1/+1This is a horribly written article. The author keeps referring to the device as a VPN server despite the fact that the pictures show it to be a VPN hardware CLIENT. There are numerous typos and proofreading errors as well:
"Internal network access permitted the credit card detail theft from retailers TK Maxx last year and Cotton Traders in June." - Don't you mean TJ Maxx? (edit - I may be wrong about this one. Is it TK Maxx in the UK?)
"Mr Mason bought the bought the server in August from an eBay seller called selectronicstore which deals in second-hard hardware." - Remember to Remember to proofread next time. - Leprince, on 09/29/2008, -2/+1I think we can call this one pure pwnage.
- seanmanseanman, on 09/29/2008, -5/+2I accidentally eBay.
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