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Comment I scrap drives all the time (Score 4, Informative) 47

by cecil36 (#61665047) Attached to: Can You Recycle a Hard Drive? Google is Quietly Trying To Find Out

I frequently scrap hard drives for metal recovery. The controller boards have a lot of precious metal on them, so I sell them to a company called Boardsort (http://www.boardsort.com). The rest of the drive is mostly aluminum, so that ends up going to the scrap yard. The outer shell is cast aluminum. The platters are either aluminum or glass with the chrome plating with trace amounts of precious metals. The read/write head has a copper or copper plated winding on it, so I toss it with my electric motors along with the drive spindle. The magnets inside I may keep or give to someone who I know collects them.

Comment DRBL or WDS (Score 1) 253

by cecil36 (#38204246) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process?

What I would do is configure a laptop to run DRBL or Windows Deployment Services (WDS). Both will give you PXE boot options and can boot whatever Linux (DRBL) or WinPE (WDS) utilities you want to use. WDS is a part of Windows Server 2008 R2 and for what you are going to need it for, you shouldn't have to purchase a license since the evaluation period should be sufficient time for you to complete your process. My suggestion would be to customize a Windows PE image to run a backup utility to capture all the data and write it to wherever you are putting it at, then run Gdisk32, which is a part of Norton Ghost to wipe the drive once the backup is complete and verified. You should be able to script this so it runs automatically once the PXE boot completes off a WDS server. I'm sure there's a way to do the same thing with DBAN if you're going to use DRBL instead.
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RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio 555

Posted by kdawson from the deja-vu-all-over-again dept.
SierraPete writes "First it was Napster; then it was Internet radio; then it was little girls, grandmothers, and dead people. But now our friends at the RIAA are going decidedly low-tech. The LA Times reports that the RIAA wants royalties from radio stations. 70 years ago Congress exempted radio stations from paying royalties to performers and labels because radio helps sell music. But since the labels that make up the RIAA are not getting the cash they desire through sales of CDs, and since Internet and satellite broadcasters are forced to cough up cash to their racket, now the RIAA wants terrestrial radio to pay up as well."

Feed Everyday Life In Pompeii Revealed (sciencedaily.com)

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Until recently archaeologists working on Pompeian artefacts have tended to concentrate on examples of art, some of it erotic, from the town that was suddenly destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79 AD. Now archaeologists are gaining new understandings of everyday life in Pompeii.
Security

Study Finds Bank of America SiteKey is Flawed 335

Posted by Hemos from the trying-something-new dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The NYT reports on a Harvard and MIT study, which finds that the SiteKey authentication system employed by Bank of America is ineffective at prevent phishing attacks. SiteKey requires users to preselect an image and to recognize this image before they login, but users don't comply. 'The idea is that if customers do not see their image, they could be at a fraudulent Web site, dummied up to look like their bank's, and should not enter their passwords. The Harvard and M.I.T. researchers tested that hypothesis. In October, they brought 67 Bank of America customers in the Boston area into a controlled environment and asked them to conduct routine online banking activities, like looking up account balances. But the researchers had secretly withdrawn the images. Of 60 participants who got that far into the study and whose results could be verified, 58 entered passwords anyway. Only two chose not to log on, citing security concerns.' The study, aptly entitled "The Emperor's New Security Indicators", is available online."

Most Web Users Unable to Spot Spyware 399

Posted by samzenpus from the masters-of-disguise dept.
Ben writes "According to a Spyware Quiz conducted by McAfee SiteAdvisor , a staggering 97% of Internet users are just one click away from infecting their PCs with spyware. One interesting conclusion from this study showed that even users with a high "Spyware IQ" have a nearly 100% chance of visiting a dangerous site during 30 days of typical online searching and browsing activity."

Comment Re:this article is worthless (Score 4, Insightful) 339

by SlashdotLemming (#10417064) Attached to: Google Faces Employee Retention Challenge
Everyone loves to hate on Google now that they're no longer the scrappy underdogs. But after walking around the "Googleplex" I can't say I've ever seen a company where the engineers were happier.

It's the usual Slashdot jeasously. Anyone who has any sort of success must be torn down. I'm a loser so I'll sit around Slashdot pumping myself up by putting others down.

Hmmm, kind of like I just did.

C'ya Slashdot. Over and out...

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