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.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday December 10 2019, @09:37PM (1 child)
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.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:30AM
“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.”
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.