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Dot Compost and the Danger to Your Privacy (Linux Journal)
In this Linux Journal article Dave
Sifry looks inside some computers he bought on eBay. "I pulled out
my Linuxcare Bootable Business Card, a disk I helped develop that I often
use when doing forensics of unknown systems. It's a utility that allows me
to quickly and easily bypass the operating system and retrieve data, a task
critical for performing data recovery of corrupted systems or for
performing forensic analysis of systems that have been compromised by
intruders. Within 45 seconds I was looking at the data on the computer's
hard drive, and what I saw shocked me. It turns out that the first
computer I bought used to be the main e-mail server for a highly visible
startup."
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