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Let this be a warning for John and Jane Q. Public (always a cute
couple, those two) to always wipe sensitive / secret data from your
hard drives before selling a computer. Or better yet, take out the
drive entirely and physically destroy it. That's what we'd expect from
our government entities, but an internal investigation found that a
number of PCs and components from NASA's shuttles had been sold from
four different centers -- Kennedy and Johnson Space Centers, and Ames
and Langley Research Centers -- that "failed sanitization verification
testing," or weren't even tested at all. In Langley's case, while hard
drives were being destroyed, "personnel did not properly account for
or track the removed hard drives during the destruction process."
Meanwhile at Kennedy, computers were found being prepped for sale that
still had "Internet Protocol information [that] was prominently
displayed." Helluva way to start a shuttle launch retirement, eh?
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