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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 15:41:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Always good to pick up a secondhand laptop and almost immediately find it's got saved emails on it labled "PRIV & CONFIDENTIAL" and "Attorney-Client Privileged Communication"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 16:36:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     who the fuck is hunter biden

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 07:02:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Andrew Zonenberg

     @azonenberg I'd have to look into the emails and I don't want to do that

   • Andrew Zonenberg (azonenberg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 07:02:20 JST Andrew Zonenberg

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     @foone Oh dear. Can you tell if it belonged to the client or the lawyer?

     A careless client is at least sliiiightly more excusable.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 07:06:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It's funny because I go to the ewaste place once a week, and every time out of the last couple months I've managed to grab some thing accidentally full of PII.

     Except last week I didn't go, I was feeling bad. My roommate went, though, and she picked up a laptop that she later gave to me.
     That's the one I found the PII on. Even when I don't go to ewaste, I find PII anyway

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 07:07:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I think the previous owner tried to do a factory reset but accidentally did a "reset windows only" kind of reset, so it reinstalled Windows 10 fresh, but preserved the user's files.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 07:57:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Andrew Paulin

     @acp hah!

   • Andrew Paulin (acp@sdf.land)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 07:57:27 JST Andrew Paulin

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     @foone I bought a Commodore 128D a week ago. Got home and discovered it had PII on it.

     "but the C128 doesn't have a HDD, you mean on floppies that came with it right?" - nope, _engraved_ into the body.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 09:12:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • pootriarch :witches_town:

     @pootriarch yeah. They're a company that does ewaste disposal for assorted bay area tech companies, and they sell off stuff to hobbists so it can be reused rather than ending up mined for gold or tossed in a landfill

   • pootriarch :witches_town: (pootriarch@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 09:12:35 JST pootriarch :witches_town:

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     @foone pardon my ignorance, what does it mean to 'go to the ewaste place'? they just have racks of stuff people disposed of, and one can buy/take stuff?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 09:33:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Andrew Paulin

     @acp clever.

   • Andrew Paulin (acp@sdf.land)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 09:33:34 JST Andrew Paulin

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     @foone this is how I ended up mitigating it - really don’t want to further engrave the already not super common machine, so settling for security by “hopefully the PII will be long irrelevant by the time the next owner thinks to move the sticker”