Monday, September 26, 2011

Our new find!

Recently DKB outerwear has updated all of our computers and built a few of our own just because we had nothing else better to do. When we came to picking out hard drives, we thought it was a good idea and by them used of the web. After they were shipped, someone told me about that nothing on a used hard drive is really deleted and it will always be there until you destroy it. A few down loads later and we recovered everything on both hard drives and you wouldn't believe what we found!

Turns out that one of the drives had two owners and one of them was Saga outerwear before they hit big. I found all of there original designs and then some! They had some really good ideas that were never released and would probably make a killing if were. Also I found some other logo ideas and other design that aren't really a big deal, but what really is a big deal was finding all of there sales with information from consumers such as credit cards, address, phone numbers and what they ordered. Whats even a bigger deal then all of that was the owners took out a credit card in the company's name...that means I have all of the info I need to bankrupt Saga, but being nice people and believing in karma and everything, we simply just told them about the hole situation and they were happy with it. We all got new Saga outwear and in the future make sure to look for a DKB Saga collaboration project.

The other hard drive I brought wasn't all that interesting because it was owned by just a normal person. All I could come up with was some address, credit card numbers and any other things that you would imagine would be on a persons computer. The lesion here is never sell your old hard drive no mater what. The easy thing to do it just have fun destroying it! Try it when you get a new computer. You do this by burning it (not so safe for the environment but gets the job done), smashing it to bits, or getting a really shredder and just put it through that.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting post -- well done tying this back to lecture material. Security is in fact a critical component of any business. What are other retailers, similar to yours, doing to account for security?

    You mention a number of security concerns, but you don't really provide much information concerning mitigatory measures that can be taken.

    Also, something to think about. How will accounting for security impact your business financially? Security is expensive. How will you balance your costs to account for it. I.e., risk vs reward, etc

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