12:57 The Second Life of hard drives | |
| Everything started with the fact that one of the servers came the need for additional hard drive. It is worth noting that the datacenter where it is located - west, namely the U.S., and not the cheapest, but even one of the top. The procedure for ordering additional drive is simple to impossible - you press a button, pay bills, confirms its consent to the removal / stop the server. Glad the new hardware, hell I pulled immediately try to mount (a server running FreeBSD). And lo and behold ... I was a stranger to the file system! At first I was shocked, but then curiosity got the better. Digging in the drive to get me, I discovered that he had previously belonged to the company's server, providing IP-telephony services. It was a test version of billing as well as all backups. Digging in ahrivnyh copies, which including those containing a dump of a working framework, it was found: access to control panel, a financial information company and customers, contacts customers. The study site (or rather lack of it) where everything is a miracle worked previously showed that either the company changed its name / brand, or is likely to shut down the server just did not prepay for by the following term. And if they just ordered an upgrade the hard drive or server? This does not affect the negligence system administrators who simply removed the hard drive from another server and inserted into another. What I want to say? If you are changing, selling, or simply upgrade the server, a typical PC, laptop or even a phone, do not forget to thoroughly clean the hard drive. Especially the photos from your phone;) Remember that the next owner may suffer from curiosity, and sometimes sophisticated ability to recover deleted files or just the partition table after formatting. | |
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