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 maxwell demon on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:45AM
The volcano method is more secure, because you can closely guard the disk until it actually is thrown into the volcano. While if you send it into the sun, your adversaries have the option to use a faster spacecraft to retrieve your hard disk before it reaches the sun.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.