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posted by martyb on Tuesday December 10 2019, @05:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-a-big-easter-egg dept.

From Asahi Shimbun

A man who won an Internet auction for used hard disks soon discovered that he was in the possession of confidential and sensitive government information that he had no business reading.

At first, the man, who owns an information technology company, was puzzled when he found repeated mention in the file names of Kanagawa Prefecture.

But he was in for a greater shock when he used recovery software and found that the files on the hard disks contained mountains of data compiled by the Kanagawa prefectural government.

The data included everything from individuals who were behind on their taxes and the amount; documents considering the seizure of assets; documents related to contract bid amounts; rosters of employees at public schools; and even design blueprints for electric power plants and water supply works.


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  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday December 10 2019, @08:10PM (3 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday December 10 2019, @08:10PM (#930744) Journal

    I've once read somewhere on the internet of an incident where support asked for a copy of the installation disk of a program to find out why it didn't work. The customer sent a photocopy. And yet, support could help them: They found out from the label that it was the wrong version.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday December 10 2019, @09:37PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 10 2019, @09:37PM (#930794) Journal

    I had been making backups, as you said, but then I read: DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY! So I quit making backups believing that to be the right thing to do.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:30AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:30AM (#930991) Journal

      “No, I didn't obtain an illegal copy of the floppy. I'm just keeping a backup floppy for a friend. You know, it is important to store backups off-site. Why I installed the program on my computer? Well, it is important to test backups to ensure they actually work.”

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  • (Score: 1) by notrandom on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:04AM

    by notrandom (5820) on Wednesday December 11 2019, @07:04AM (#930985)

    Welp, i'm a webmaster/sysadmin and also a client of the hosting industry. I had to deal with many more idiotic sysadmins and support personnel than with stupid clients... =/