Garbage out, Garbage is not mine anymore!
Posted by me101 on 01 January 2003 - 00:27 · 3 comments & 615 views
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#1 Posted by trashpickinman on 01 Jan 2003 - 20:11
- I find nothing wrong with going through others garbage. But i mainly look for electronics, but sometimes I do find CC numbers, SSN and other stuff (they go right back in the garbage, I'm not a thief). there has even been a supreme court ruling saying once garbage hits public areas, it becomes everybodys property. At least 2 or 3 times a week I hit the streets looking for more stuff.
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#1.1 Posted by sonicice on 01 Jan 2003 - 23:47
- Personally, I'd rather not have people going through my trash, but if I did go through trash, I'd be afraid of people who didn't know about the rulings and such coming out of their homes in a violent manner at me.
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#1.2 Posted by trashpickinman on 02 Jan 2003 - 00:44
- Yeah, I'm watchful of people in their yard or coming out of their house, had a couple of close calls though.
I suppose the usual comment I would have is, use a $30 shreader !
Three prominent members of Portland, who have voiced their views that "Most judges have the opinion that [once] trash is put out...it's trash, and abandoned in terms of privacy", and "that once you set your garbage out on the curb, it becomes public property", got their "garbage" turned on them, and have now caused a "stink"...
From the garbage of these three members of Portland life, they found that the Chief of Police's credit-card number; we know where he buys his groceries; we know how much toilet tissue he goes through. We know whose Christmas cards he has pitched, whose wedding he skipped, whose photo he threw away. We know what newsletters he gets and how much he's socked away in the stock market. We even know he's thinking about a new car--and which models he's considering.
The Mayor escaped with only her recycling garbage being picked, but this showed what newspapers she reads, and what TV shows she was interested in "Wargame: Iraq", "Everwood", "CSI Miami", "The West Wing", Figure skating TV programs and a Dog show...
Very interesting reading, if you are interested in your own privacy, so as soon as you toss something in the rubbish bin, think who coulld be reading it, yea RIGHT, who's gonna be interested in a email from my brother in New Jersey who stubbed his toe whilst shovelling snow last weekend!
The site that carried the story has been naturally "slashdotted", but someone kindly posted the text of the story so everyone can read at your leisure!
Although the exploit code was written for the Putty client, crackers regularly take such files and modify them to attack other vulnerable implementations. Security researchers often write exploits to test their own systems for vulnerabilities and then release the code publicly as a proof-of-concept. This is typically done after a patch is made available, as was the case with the SSH vulnerabilities