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jordigh ◴[] No.41855104[source]
Where does Foone keep finding this stuff?

Earlier, Foone finds a NUC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294585

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protocolture ◴[] No.41864689[source]
I once worked on an ewaste shipment from a rail carrier.

99% of the stuff they sent us was boring corporate desktops running standard, secure soe.

1 laptop however, booted into windows with saved credentials, connected to a vpn automatically, logged into the rail companys in house software automatically, and began displaying what I can only assume was a live map of the rail network. Little green lines running along red lines, the green lines would come to junctions and stop. It had buttons. I think I shucked the hard drive and drilled it within 60 seconds and had the hardware completely disintegrated.

One other time a games company that got liquidated sent us a pallet of computers that had source code for a relatively popular strategy game on the drives.

Another games company shipped us their test kits one of which had a dev build of a relatively well known action adventure game. The warehouse guys would play the dev build of the game on their lunch breaks.

Basically no one gives a shit.

All of that before I worked for a business that stored their customer info including credit cards in plain text one dirwalk away on their public website. When we complained we were told that it was fine because they "encrypted" the card numbers. The encryption was adding 1 to the card number. I died.

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1. nar001 ◴[] No.41865584[source]
I hope someone backed all of these up, they sound like a goldmine