Information security, recycling and irony

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> For the record, anything that is thrown away (recycled or not) is unsecured. 
> I worked for a bank data processing center a number of years ago, and some 
> of the trash was bagged and saved in a vault. The reason for saving of the 
> trash was that a check or other financial information may have ended up in 
> the trash. How long it was retained and what its final disposition was, I 
> don't recall. 

Heh.  just last week I was talking to someone who trash-picked an old 
clunker computer from a neighbor, and it turned out the hard drive was 
full of naked pictures of the couple.

Let that be a lesson to you all.