N.J. Left Confidential Info On PCs Up For Auction

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So the state of New Jersey left some info on computers they auctioned off to the public. How bad could the problem be? Try 79% of all state PCs aren't data wiped before being disposed of. :eek:

The audit revealed that 79 percent of computer hard drives inspected were not wiped clean before the agencies disposed of them. About one-third had confidential or personal information. State guidelines say agencies must delete all information before disposing of a computer, and releasing confidential data to unauthorized people is prohibited by state and federal law.
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That makes no sense at all. Our standard practice is to all hard drives before sending machines off to auction, and then have maintenance destroy them. Our IT department is 4 people. If we could figure that out, how could New Jersey not?
 
Maximus825 said:
That makes no sense at all. Our standard practice is to all hard drives before sending machines off to auction, and then have maintenance destroy them. Our IT department is 4 people. If we could figure that out, how could New Jersey not?
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Yet they wanna ban people smoking behind the wheel?? im no smoker but geez NJ is becoming the nanny state and our new Gov sux!! screwing with public school budgets but wanting to give money to private and religious ones! screw him, Christie sux monkey nutz in hell!
 
dogbyte_13 said:
Yet they wanna ban people smoking behind the wheel?? im no smoker but geez NJ is becoming the nanny state and our new Gov sux!! screwing with public school budgets but wanting to give money to private and religious ones! screw him, Christie sux monkey nutz in hell!
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Because christie was the one who forgot to wipe the drives...
 
dogbyte_13 said:
Yet they wanna ban people smoking behind the wheel?? im no smoker but geez NJ is becoming the nanny state and our new Gov sux!! screwing with public school budgets but wanting to give money to private and religious ones! screw him, Christie sux monkey nutz in hell!
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You can't blame the gov'na for this one. You blame the guys/gals who took the computers offline and onto a pallet.
 
Sad but not surprising from my home state. I bet the federal gov.'t is even worse and contains even more confidential info. :eek:
 
Cheating IT people, that's the cause. This is basic stuff..I don't even resell my storage drives without wiping thoroughly.
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I would never ever resell old drives, with enough time, you can pull things off of any drive. I don't care how many times you zero it.
Also, Christie is the best thing to happen to NJ in a long time.
 
Maximus825 said:
That makes no sense at all. Our standard practice is to all hard drives before sending machines off to auction, and then have maintenance destroy them. Our IT department is 4 people. If we could figure that out, how could New Jersey not?
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Hey, ya gotta remember, these are GOVERNMENT WORKERS we are talking about. :D
 
I don't resell my storage devices, I use them till they die, so I don't have this problem.
 
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