{"id":4268,"date":"2012-04-26T18:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T22:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2012-04-26T18:26:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T22:26:05","slug":"almost-half-of-all-used-hard-drives-contain-info-from-previous-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/almost-half-of-all-used-hard-drives-contain-info-from-previous-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Half Of All Used Hard Drives Contain Info From Previous Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>Courtesy of MaximumPC.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Getting to know your neighbors better used to involve a lot of legwork: heading next door for dinner, chatting over the fence, signing up for the Neighborhood watch, et cetera. The times, they are a-changin&#8217;, though, and a new study commissioned by Britain&#8217;s Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office suggests that these days, all you have to do to understand your fellow man is buy a used hard drive. Almost half of all used hard drives tested by the organization still contained information from their previous owners.<\/p>\n<p>By &#8220;almost half,&#8221; we mean a whopping 48 percent. A full 11 percent of the hard drives contained personal information, while 3 percent of the 200 drives tested contained really, really personal information, including copies of passports, resumes, tax info, birth certificates, driver&#8217;s licenses, health information and full bank details. Some of drives originally came from businesses; everyday folks weren&#8217;t just scanning birth certificates into PCs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/Y4HXi\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of MaximumPC.com Getting to know your neighbors better used to involve a lot of legwork: heading next door for dinner, chatting over the fence, signing up for the Neighborhood watch, et cetera. The times, they are a-changin&#8217;, though, and a new study commissioned by Britain&#8217;s Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office suggests that these days, all you have to do\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/almost-half-of-all-used-hard-drives-contain-info-from-previous-owners\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4269,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}