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Police memo: Erase hard drives before sale

Posted : Wed, 30 May 2007 23:32:01 GMT
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TRENTON, N.J., May 30 In an apparent case of one memo too few, police in a New Jersey town have found several sensitive memos placed online after a recent computer sale.

Police in Ewing, N.J., were surprised recently to find several classified memos on the Internet after township critics lifted the sensitive data from a computer sold by authorities years ago, The (Trenton, N.J.) Times said Wednesday.

The controller of the Web site that posted the data said the computers with their unaltered hard drives also contained much more sensitive information.

"There was other, more sensitive stuff, that we didn't post, like victim affidavits and pictures from porn sites and shopping sites that were visited by employees," Steve Sredinski said. Local authorities admitted the computers' hard drives should have been erased before being sold, but would not confirm to the Times exactly who was to blame for the technological blunder.



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